1 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
2 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
3 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
4 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
6 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
7 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
8 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
9 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
10 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
11 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
13 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
14 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
15 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
16 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
17 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
20 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
21 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
22 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
23 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
24 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
26 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
27 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
28 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
29 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
30 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
33 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
34 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
35 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
36 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
37 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
39 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
40 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
41 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
42 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
44 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
45 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
46 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
49 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
50 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
51 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
54 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
55 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
56 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
57 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
59 o Code simplification and refactoring:
60 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
64 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
65 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
66 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
67 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
68 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
70 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
71 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
72 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
73 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
74 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
75 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
77 o Major features (relay, UI change):
78 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
79 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
80 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
81 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
82 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
83 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
84 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
86 o Major features (bootstrap):
87 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
88 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
89 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
90 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
92 o Major features (new code layout):
93 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
94 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
95 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
96 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
97 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
98 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
99 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
101 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
102 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
103 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
105 o Major features (onion services v3):
106 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
107 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
108 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
109 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
110 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
111 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
112 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
113 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
114 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
115 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
116 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
117 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
118 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
120 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
121 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
122 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
123 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
124 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
125 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
126 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
128 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
129 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
130 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
131 (if present), and restart Tor.
133 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
134 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
135 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
136 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
139 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
140 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
141 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
142 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
144 o Minor features (admin tools):
145 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
146 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
149 o Minor features (build):
150 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
151 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
152 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
153 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
155 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
156 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
157 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
158 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
159 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
161 o Minor features (code layout):
162 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
163 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
164 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
165 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
168 o Minor features (compilation):
169 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
170 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
171 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
172 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
175 o Minor features (config):
176 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
179 o Minor features (continuous integration):
180 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
181 Implements ticket 27252.
182 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
183 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
184 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
185 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
186 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
187 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
188 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
189 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
190 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
192 o Minor features (controller):
193 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
194 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
195 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
196 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
197 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
198 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
199 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
200 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
202 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
203 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
204 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
205 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
207 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
208 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
209 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
210 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
212 o Minor features (development):
213 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
214 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
216 o Minor features (directory authority):
217 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
218 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
219 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
220 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
222 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
223 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
226 o Minor features (embedding API):
227 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
228 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
229 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
230 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
231 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
232 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
235 o Minor features (geoip):
236 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
237 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
239 o Minor features (memory management):
240 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
241 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
244 o Minor features (memory usage):
245 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
246 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
247 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
249 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
250 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
251 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
253 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
254 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
255 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
256 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
258 o Minor features (testing):
259 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
260 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
262 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
263 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
264 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
266 o Minor features (UI):
267 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
268 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
269 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
270 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
273 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
274 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
275 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
276 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
278 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
279 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
280 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
281 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
282 - Use time_t for all values in
283 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
284 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
285 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
287 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
288 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
289 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
290 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
291 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
294 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
295 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
296 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
297 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
298 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
299 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
301 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
302 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
303 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
304 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
306 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
307 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
308 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
309 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
310 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
312 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
313 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
314 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
316 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
317 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
318 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
319 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
320 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
323 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
324 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
325 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
327 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
328 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
329 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
332 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
333 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
334 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
335 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
336 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
338 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
339 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
340 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
341 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
342 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
343 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
344 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
346 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
347 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
348 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
349 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
350 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
352 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
353 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
354 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
356 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
357 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
358 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
359 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
362 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
363 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
364 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
367 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
368 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
369 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
370 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
371 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
373 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
374 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
375 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
376 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
378 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
379 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
380 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
381 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
383 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
384 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
385 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
386 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
387 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
388 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
389 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
390 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
391 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
392 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
394 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
395 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
396 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
397 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
398 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
399 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
400 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
401 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
403 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
404 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
405 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
406 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
407 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
408 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
409 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
410 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
411 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
412 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
413 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
414 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
415 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
417 o Code simplification and refactoring:
418 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
419 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
420 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
421 directory within the top-level src directory.
422 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
423 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
424 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
425 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
426 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
427 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
428 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
429 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
430 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
431 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
432 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
433 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
434 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
435 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
436 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
437 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
439 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
440 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
441 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
442 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
443 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
444 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
445 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
447 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
448 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
449 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
452 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
453 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
454 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
455 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
456 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
459 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
460 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
461 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
462 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
463 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
464 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
465 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
466 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
467 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
468 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
469 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
473 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
474 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
476 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
477 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
478 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
479 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
481 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
482 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
484 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
485 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
486 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
487 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
489 o Minor features (geoip):
490 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
491 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
493 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
494 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
495 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
496 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
498 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
499 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
500 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
501 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
502 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
503 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
504 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
505 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
508 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
509 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
510 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
511 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
513 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
514 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
515 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
516 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
518 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
519 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
520 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
521 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
523 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
524 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
525 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
526 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
527 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
529 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
530 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
531 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
534 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
535 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
536 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
537 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
538 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
540 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
541 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
542 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
545 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
546 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
547 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
548 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
550 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
551 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
552 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
554 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
555 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
556 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
559 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
560 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
561 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
562 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
563 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
565 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
566 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
567 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
570 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
571 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
573 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
574 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
575 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
576 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
578 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
579 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
581 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
582 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
583 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
584 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
586 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
587 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
590 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
591 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
592 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
593 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
595 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
596 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
597 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
598 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
600 o Minor features (geoip):
601 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
602 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
604 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
605 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
606 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
607 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
608 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
609 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
610 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
612 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
613 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
614 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
615 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
616 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
617 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
618 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
619 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
622 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
623 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
624 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
625 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
627 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
628 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
629 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
630 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
632 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
633 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
634 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
635 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
636 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
638 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
639 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
640 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
641 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
642 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
644 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
645 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
646 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
649 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
650 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
651 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
652 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
653 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
655 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
656 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
657 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
660 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
661 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
662 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
665 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
666 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
667 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
670 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
671 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
673 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
674 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
675 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
676 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
678 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
679 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
680 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
681 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
683 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
684 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
685 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
687 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
688 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
689 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
690 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
691 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
692 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
693 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
696 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
697 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
698 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
699 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
700 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
702 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
703 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
704 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
705 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
706 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
708 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
709 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
710 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
713 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
714 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
716 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
717 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
718 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
719 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
721 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
722 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
723 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
724 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
726 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
727 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
728 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
730 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
731 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
732 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
733 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
735 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
736 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
739 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
740 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
741 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
742 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
744 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
745 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
746 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
747 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
749 o Minor features (geoip):
750 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
751 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
753 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
754 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
755 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
756 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
757 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
758 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
759 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
761 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
762 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
763 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
764 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
765 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
766 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
767 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
768 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
771 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
772 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
773 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
774 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
776 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
777 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
778 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
779 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
781 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
782 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
783 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
784 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
785 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
787 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
788 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
789 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
790 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
791 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
793 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
794 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
795 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
798 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
799 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
800 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
801 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
803 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
804 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
805 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
806 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
807 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
809 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
810 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
811 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
814 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
815 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
816 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
819 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
820 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
821 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
824 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
825 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
826 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
827 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
829 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
830 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
831 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
834 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
835 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
837 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
838 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
839 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
840 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
841 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
842 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
843 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
845 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
846 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
847 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
848 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
849 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
851 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
852 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
853 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
854 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
856 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
857 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
858 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
860 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
861 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
862 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
863 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
864 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
865 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
866 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
869 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
870 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
871 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
872 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
873 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
875 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
876 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
877 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
878 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
879 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
881 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
882 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
883 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
886 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
887 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
888 compilation and portability fixes.
890 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
891 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
892 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
893 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
894 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
895 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
896 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
897 our anti-denial-of-service code.
899 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
900 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
902 o Minor features (compatibility):
903 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
904 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
905 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
907 o Minor features (continuous integration):
908 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
909 Implements ticket 27449.
910 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
911 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
914 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
915 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
916 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
917 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
918 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
919 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
920 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
921 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
924 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
925 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
926 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
927 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
928 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
929 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
930 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
931 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
932 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
933 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
935 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
936 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
937 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
940 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
941 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
942 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
943 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
944 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
945 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
946 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
949 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
950 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
951 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
952 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
953 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
955 o Minor features (bug workaround):
956 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
957 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
958 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
960 o Minor features (continuous integration):
961 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
962 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
964 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
965 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
966 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
967 Implements ticket 27275.
968 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
969 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
971 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
972 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
975 o Minor features (directory authorities):
976 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
977 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
978 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
980 o Minor features (geoip):
981 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
982 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
984 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
985 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
986 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
987 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
989 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
990 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
991 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
992 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
993 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
994 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
995 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
996 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
998 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
999 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
1000 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
1001 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1003 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1004 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
1005 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
1006 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
1007 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
1009 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1010 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
1011 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
1014 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1015 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
1016 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
1019 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
1020 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
1022 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
1023 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
1024 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
1025 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
1026 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1027 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
1028 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
1030 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
1031 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1032 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
1033 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
1034 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1036 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
1037 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
1038 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
1039 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
1040 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1042 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
1043 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
1044 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
1045 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
1046 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1048 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
1049 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
1050 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1053 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
1054 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
1055 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
1056 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
1057 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
1059 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
1060 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
1061 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
1062 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
1063 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
1064 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1066 o Minor features (compilation):
1067 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1068 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1070 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
1071 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
1072 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1073 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
1074 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
1075 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
1077 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1078 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
1079 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
1080 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
1082 o Minor features (controller):
1083 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
1084 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
1085 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
1087 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1088 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
1089 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
1092 o Minor features (geoip):
1093 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1094 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1096 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
1097 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
1099 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1100 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
1101 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
1102 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1103 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1104 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1105 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1107 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1108 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
1109 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1110 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
1111 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
1112 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
1114 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
1115 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
1116 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
1119 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
1120 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1121 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1123 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1124 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
1125 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
1128 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1129 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
1130 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1131 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
1132 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
1133 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1135 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
1136 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
1137 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
1138 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1140 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1141 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
1142 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1144 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
1145 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
1146 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
1147 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
1148 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
1149 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
1151 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1152 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
1153 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
1154 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
1155 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
1158 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
1159 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1160 bridge relays should upgrade.
1162 o Directory authority changes:
1163 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1164 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1165 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1168 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
1169 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1170 bridge relays should upgrade.
1172 o Directory authority changes:
1173 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1174 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1175 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1178 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
1179 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1180 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
1183 o Directory authority changes:
1184 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1185 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1186 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1188 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
1189 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
1190 Closes ticket 26343.
1192 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1193 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1194 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1195 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1196 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1198 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1199 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
1200 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
1202 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1203 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
1204 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
1205 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
1207 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1208 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
1209 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
1211 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1212 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1213 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1214 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1215 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1216 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1218 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1219 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
1220 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
1221 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
1223 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1224 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1225 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1228 o Minor features (geoip):
1229 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1230 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1232 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1233 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
1234 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
1235 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
1236 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1238 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1239 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
1240 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1242 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1243 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
1244 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
1245 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
1246 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1247 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1248 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1249 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1252 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1253 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
1254 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
1255 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
1256 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
1257 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1259 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1260 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
1261 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
1262 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
1263 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
1265 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1266 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1267 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1268 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1269 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1271 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1272 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
1273 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
1276 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1277 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
1278 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1280 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1281 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
1282 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
1283 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
1285 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1286 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
1287 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1288 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
1289 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
1290 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
1291 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1293 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1294 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
1295 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
1296 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
1299 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1300 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
1301 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1303 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1304 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
1305 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1307 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1308 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
1309 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
1310 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
1313 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1314 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
1315 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
1316 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
1318 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1319 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1320 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1322 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1323 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
1324 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
1327 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
1328 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1329 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
1332 o Directory authority changes:
1333 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1334 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1335 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1337 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
1338 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
1339 Closes ticket 26343.
1341 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1342 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1343 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1344 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1345 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1347 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1348 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
1349 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
1350 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
1352 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1353 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1354 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1355 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1356 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1357 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1359 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1360 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1361 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1364 o Minor features (geoip):
1365 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1366 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1368 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1369 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
1370 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
1371 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
1372 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1374 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1375 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
1376 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1378 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1379 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1380 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1381 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1384 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1385 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
1386 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
1387 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
1388 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
1389 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1391 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1392 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1393 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1394 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1395 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1397 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1398 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
1399 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
1402 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1403 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
1404 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1406 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1407 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
1408 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
1409 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
1411 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1412 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1413 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1415 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1416 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
1417 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
1420 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
1421 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
1422 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
1423 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
1424 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
1426 o Minor features (compilation):
1427 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1428 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1431 o Minor features (geoip):
1432 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1433 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1435 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
1436 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
1438 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1439 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1440 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1441 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1442 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1444 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1445 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
1446 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1447 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
1448 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
1449 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
1451 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
1452 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
1453 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
1456 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
1457 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1458 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1460 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
1461 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
1462 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
1463 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
1464 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1465 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1466 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1467 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1471 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
1472 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
1473 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
1475 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1476 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
1477 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
1478 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1480 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1481 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
1482 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
1485 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1486 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1487 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1490 o Minor features (geoip):
1491 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1492 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1494 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1495 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
1496 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
1497 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
1499 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1500 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
1501 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
1502 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
1503 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
1506 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1507 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1508 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1509 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1510 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1512 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1513 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
1514 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
1515 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
1517 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1518 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1519 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1521 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1522 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
1523 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
1524 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
1527 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1528 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
1529 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
1530 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1532 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1533 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
1534 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
1535 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
1536 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1537 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1538 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1539 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1543 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
1544 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
1545 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
1547 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1548 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
1549 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
1550 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1552 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
1553 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
1554 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
1557 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
1558 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
1559 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
1560 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
1562 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
1563 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
1564 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
1565 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
1567 o Minor features (unit tests):
1568 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
1569 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
1570 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
1573 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1574 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
1575 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
1576 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1577 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
1578 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
1579 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1580 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
1581 Closes ticket 26245.
1583 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1584 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
1585 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
1586 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
1587 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
1588 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1590 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1591 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
1592 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
1593 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
1596 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1597 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
1598 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1599 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
1600 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
1601 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
1602 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
1603 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
1604 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1605 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
1606 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
1607 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
1608 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
1609 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1612 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
1613 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
1614 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
1616 o Directory authority changes:
1617 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
1618 Closes ticket 26343.
1620 o Minor features (geoip):
1621 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1622 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
1624 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1625 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
1626 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
1627 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
1628 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
1629 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1631 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1632 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
1633 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1635 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1636 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
1637 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
1638 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
1639 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1641 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1642 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
1643 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1645 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1646 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
1647 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
1648 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
1649 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
1650 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1653 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
1654 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
1655 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
1657 o Directory authority changes:
1658 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
1659 Closes ticket 26343.
1661 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
1662 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
1663 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
1664 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
1665 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
1667 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1668 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
1669 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
1670 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
1672 o Minor features (geoip):
1673 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1674 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
1676 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
1677 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
1678 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
1679 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
1680 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
1681 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1683 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1684 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
1685 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1686 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
1687 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1688 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
1689 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
1690 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1692 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1693 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
1694 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
1695 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
1698 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1699 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
1700 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
1701 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
1702 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1704 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
1705 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
1706 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1708 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1709 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
1710 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1712 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
1713 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
1714 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
1715 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
1719 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
1720 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
1721 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1723 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
1724 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
1725 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
1726 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
1727 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
1728 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
1730 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
1731 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1733 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1734 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1735 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1736 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1737 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1739 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
1740 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
1741 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
1742 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
1743 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
1745 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1746 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
1747 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
1748 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1750 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1751 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
1752 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
1753 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1755 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1756 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
1757 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
1759 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1760 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
1761 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
1764 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1765 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
1766 Closes ticket 26006.
1768 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1769 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1770 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1771 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1772 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1773 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1775 o Minor features (geoip):
1776 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
1777 database. Closes ticket 26104.
1779 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1780 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
1781 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
1784 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1785 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
1786 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
1787 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
1788 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1790 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1791 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
1792 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
1793 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
1794 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
1797 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1798 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
1799 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1801 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1802 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
1803 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1804 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
1805 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
1806 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
1807 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1809 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1810 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
1811 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1813 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1814 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
1815 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
1818 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
1819 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
1820 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
1821 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
1822 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
1823 other small features and bugfixes.
1825 o New system requirements:
1826 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
1827 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
1828 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
1829 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
1831 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
1832 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
1833 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
1834 To disable the module, the configure option
1835 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
1836 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
1838 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
1839 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
1840 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
1841 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
1842 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
1843 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
1844 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
1845 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
1846 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
1847 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
1848 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
1850 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
1851 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
1852 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
1853 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
1854 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
1855 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
1856 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
1857 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
1858 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
1859 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
1860 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
1861 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
1862 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
1863 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
1864 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
1865 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
1866 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
1867 Tor's uptime (26009).
1869 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
1870 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1871 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1872 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1873 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1875 o Major bugfixes (crash):
1876 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
1877 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
1878 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1880 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1881 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
1882 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
1883 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1885 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
1886 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
1887 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
1889 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
1890 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
1891 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
1892 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
1893 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
1894 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
1895 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
1896 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
1897 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
1898 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
1899 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
1900 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
1901 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
1902 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1904 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
1905 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
1906 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
1909 o Minor features (accounting):
1910 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
1911 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
1912 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
1913 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
1915 o Minor features (code quality):
1916 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
1917 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
1918 Closes ticket 25024.
1920 o Minor features (compatibility):
1921 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
1922 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
1923 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
1924 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
1925 Closes ticket 26006.
1927 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
1928 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
1929 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
1930 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
1931 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
1932 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
1934 o Minor features (configuration):
1935 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
1936 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
1937 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
1938 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
1939 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
1941 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1942 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1943 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1944 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1945 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1946 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1948 o Minor features (control port):
1949 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
1950 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
1951 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
1952 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1953 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
1954 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
1955 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
1956 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
1957 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
1958 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
1960 o Minor features (directory authority):
1961 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
1962 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
1963 Closes ticket 23909.
1965 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
1966 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
1967 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
1968 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
1970 o Minor features (entry guards):
1971 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
1972 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
1974 o Minor features (geoip):
1975 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
1976 database. Closes ticket 26104.
1978 o Minor features (performance):
1979 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
1980 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
1981 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
1982 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
1984 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
1985 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
1987 o Minor features (testing):
1988 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
1989 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
1991 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
1992 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
1993 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
1994 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
1995 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
1996 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
1998 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
1999 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
2000 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
2001 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
2002 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
2004 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
2005 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
2006 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
2007 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
2008 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
2009 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
2011 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2012 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
2013 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
2014 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
2016 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
2017 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
2018 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
2019 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
2020 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
2023 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2024 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
2025 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
2028 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
2029 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
2030 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2031 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
2032 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
2034 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
2035 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
2036 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
2037 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
2038 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2040 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2041 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
2042 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
2043 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
2044 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2046 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
2047 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
2048 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
2049 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
2050 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2052 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
2053 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
2054 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2055 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
2056 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
2057 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
2060 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2061 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
2062 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
2063 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
2064 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
2067 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
2068 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
2069 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
2070 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
2071 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
2072 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
2073 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2075 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2076 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
2077 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2079 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2080 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
2081 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2082 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
2083 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
2084 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
2085 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2087 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
2088 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
2089 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
2090 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
2091 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
2092 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
2094 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2095 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
2096 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
2099 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
2100 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
2101 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
2102 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2104 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
2105 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
2106 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
2107 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
2108 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
2109 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
2110 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2112 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
2113 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
2114 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2116 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
2117 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
2118 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
2119 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2121 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2122 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
2123 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
2124 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
2125 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
2126 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2127 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
2128 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
2130 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
2131 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
2132 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2133 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
2134 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
2135 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
2136 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
2138 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
2139 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
2140 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
2141 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
2142 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
2144 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
2145 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
2146 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
2149 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
2150 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
2151 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
2152 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
2153 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
2154 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2156 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2157 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
2158 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
2159 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2160 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
2161 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
2162 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
2163 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
2165 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
2166 confusing we renamed some functions and
2167 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
2168 router_should_check_reachability() and
2169 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
2170 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
2171 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
2172 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
2173 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
2175 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
2176 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
2178 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
2179 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
2180 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2181 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
2182 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
2183 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
2184 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
2185 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
2186 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
2187 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
2188 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
2189 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
2190 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
2191 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
2192 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
2193 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2194 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
2195 Closes ticket 25766.
2196 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
2197 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
2198 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
2199 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
2200 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
2201 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
2202 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
2203 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
2204 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
2205 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
2206 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2207 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
2208 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
2209 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
2211 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
2212 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
2213 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
2214 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
2215 before. Closes ticket 26016.
2216 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
2217 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
2218 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
2219 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
2221 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
2222 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
2223 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
2224 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2226 o Deprecated features:
2227 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
2228 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
2229 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
2230 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
2231 key if the want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
2232 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
2235 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
2236 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
2239 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
2240 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
2241 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
2242 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
2243 24378 and proposal 290.
2244 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
2245 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
2246 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
2247 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
2248 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
2249 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
2250 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
2251 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
2252 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
2253 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
2254 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
2255 their local router. Closes 25409.
2256 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
2257 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
2258 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
2259 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
2260 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
2261 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
2262 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
2263 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
2264 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
2265 Closes ticket 25268.
2268 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
2269 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
2270 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
2272 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
2273 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
2274 be nearly identical to this one.
2276 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
2277 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
2278 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
2279 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
2280 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
2281 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2283 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
2284 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
2285 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
2286 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
2287 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
2288 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
2289 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
2291 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
2292 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
2293 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
2295 o Minor features (config options):
2296 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
2297 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
2298 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
2301 o Minor features (geoip):
2302 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2303 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
2305 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2306 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
2307 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
2308 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
2309 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
2310 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
2312 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2313 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
2314 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
2315 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2317 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
2318 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
2319 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
2320 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2321 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
2322 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
2323 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2325 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2326 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
2327 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
2328 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
2329 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2330 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
2331 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2333 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
2334 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
2335 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
2336 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
2337 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
2339 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2340 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
2341 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
2343 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
2344 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
2345 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
2347 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2348 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
2349 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
2351 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
2352 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
2353 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
2357 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
2358 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
2359 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
2360 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
2362 o New system requirements:
2363 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
2364 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
2366 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
2367 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
2368 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
2369 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
2370 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2372 o Minor features (geoip):
2373 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2374 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
2376 o Minor features (log messages):
2377 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
2378 information about memory usage from the different compression
2379 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
2381 o Minor features (sandbox):
2382 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
2383 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
2384 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
2386 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2387 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
2388 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
2389 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
2391 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
2392 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
2393 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
2395 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2396 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
2397 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
2398 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
2400 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
2401 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
2402 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
2403 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2405 o Major bugfixes (networking):
2406 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
2407 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
2408 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
2410 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
2411 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
2412 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
2414 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2415 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
2416 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
2417 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
2418 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
2419 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2421 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2422 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2423 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
2424 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
2426 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
2427 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
2428 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
2429 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
2431 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
2432 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
2433 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
2434 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
2437 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
2438 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
2439 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
2440 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
2441 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2443 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2444 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
2445 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
2449 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
2451 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
2452 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
2455 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
2456 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
2459 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
2460 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
2462 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
2463 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
2465 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
2468 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
2469 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
2470 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
2472 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
2473 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
2474 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
2475 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
2478 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2479 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
2480 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
2481 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
2484 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2485 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
2486 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
2487 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
2488 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
2489 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
2490 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
2491 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
2492 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
2493 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
2494 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
2495 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
2496 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
2498 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2499 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
2500 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
2502 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2503 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
2504 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
2505 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
2506 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
2507 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
2508 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2510 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2511 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
2512 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2514 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2515 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
2516 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
2517 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
2518 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
2519 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
2520 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2522 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2523 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
2524 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
2525 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
2527 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2528 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
2529 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
2530 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
2532 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2533 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
2534 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
2535 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
2536 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
2537 Closes ticket 24978.
2539 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
2540 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
2541 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
2542 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
2543 information. Closes ticket 24801.
2544 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
2545 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
2546 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
2547 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
2549 o Minor features (geoip):
2550 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2553 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2554 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
2555 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
2556 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
2557 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2559 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2560 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
2561 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
2562 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
2563 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2565 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
2566 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
2567 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
2568 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
2569 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
2572 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2573 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
2574 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
2575 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
2576 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
2577 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
2578 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
2579 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
2580 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
2581 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
2582 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
2585 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
2586 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
2587 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2589 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2590 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
2591 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
2594 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2595 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
2596 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
2597 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
2598 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
2599 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
2600 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
2602 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2603 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
2604 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2605 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
2606 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
2607 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
2608 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
2609 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
2610 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
2613 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
2614 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
2615 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
2616 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
2617 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
2618 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2620 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2621 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
2622 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
2623 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2625 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
2626 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
2627 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
2628 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
2629 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
2632 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2633 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
2634 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
2635 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
2636 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
2637 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2639 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
2640 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
2641 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
2642 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
2643 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
2644 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
2645 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2646 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
2647 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
2648 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2649 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
2650 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2652 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2653 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
2654 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
2655 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2657 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2658 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
2659 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
2660 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2662 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
2663 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
2664 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
2665 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
2668 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
2669 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
2670 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
2671 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
2672 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
2674 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2675 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
2677 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
2678 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2680 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2681 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
2682 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
2685 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
2686 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
2689 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
2690 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
2692 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
2693 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
2695 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
2698 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
2699 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
2700 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
2702 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2703 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
2704 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
2705 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
2708 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
2709 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
2710 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
2711 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
2712 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
2713 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
2714 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
2715 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
2716 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
2717 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
2718 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
2719 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
2720 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
2722 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
2723 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
2724 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
2725 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
2726 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
2727 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
2728 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
2729 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
2730 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
2732 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
2733 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
2734 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
2735 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
2736 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
2737 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
2738 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2740 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
2741 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
2742 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
2743 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
2745 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
2746 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
2747 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
2748 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
2749 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
2750 Closes ticket 24978.
2752 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
2753 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
2754 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
2755 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
2757 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
2758 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
2759 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
2760 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
2761 information. Closes ticket 24801.
2762 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
2763 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
2764 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
2765 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
2767 o Minor features (geoip):
2768 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2771 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2772 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
2773 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
2775 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
2776 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
2777 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
2778 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
2779 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2781 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
2782 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
2783 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
2784 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
2785 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2787 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
2788 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
2789 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
2790 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
2791 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
2794 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2795 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
2796 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2798 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2799 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
2800 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
2803 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2804 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
2805 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
2806 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
2807 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
2808 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
2809 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
2811 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
2812 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
2813 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
2814 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
2815 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
2818 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
2819 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
2820 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
2821 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
2822 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
2823 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2825 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
2826 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
2827 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
2828 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2830 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
2831 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
2832 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
2833 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
2834 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
2835 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
2836 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2837 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
2838 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
2839 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2840 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
2841 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2843 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
2844 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
2845 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
2846 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
2849 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2850 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
2851 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
2852 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
2853 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
2855 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2856 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
2858 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
2859 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2862 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
2863 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
2864 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
2867 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
2868 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
2870 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
2871 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
2872 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
2873 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
2874 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
2875 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
2878 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
2879 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
2881 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
2884 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
2885 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
2886 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
2887 the DoS mitigations.)
2889 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2890 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
2891 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
2892 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
2895 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2896 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
2897 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
2898 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2900 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2901 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
2902 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
2903 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
2904 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
2905 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
2906 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
2907 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
2908 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
2909 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
2910 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
2911 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
2912 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
2914 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2915 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
2916 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
2917 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
2918 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
2919 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
2920 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2921 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
2922 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
2923 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
2924 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2926 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2927 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
2928 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2930 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2931 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
2932 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
2933 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
2934 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
2935 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
2936 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2938 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2939 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
2940 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
2941 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2943 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2944 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
2945 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
2946 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
2948 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2949 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
2950 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
2951 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
2952 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
2953 Closes ticket 24978.
2955 o Minor features (geoip):
2956 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2959 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2960 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
2961 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
2964 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2965 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
2966 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
2967 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
2968 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2970 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2971 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
2972 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
2973 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
2974 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
2975 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
2976 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
2978 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2979 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
2980 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
2981 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
2982 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2984 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2985 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
2986 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
2987 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2989 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2990 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
2991 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
2992 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
2993 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2995 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2996 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
2997 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
2998 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3000 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3001 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
3002 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
3003 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3005 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3006 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
3007 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
3008 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3010 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3011 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
3013 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
3014 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3016 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3017 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
3018 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
3020 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3021 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
3022 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
3023 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
3024 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3026 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3027 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
3028 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
3030 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
3031 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
3032 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
3036 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
3037 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
3038 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
3039 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
3041 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
3042 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
3043 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
3044 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
3045 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
3046 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3048 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
3051 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
3052 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
3053 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
3054 the DoS mitigations.)
3056 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
3057 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
3058 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
3059 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
3062 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
3063 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
3064 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
3065 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
3066 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
3067 Closes ticket 24978.
3069 o Minor features (logging):
3070 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
3071 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
3073 o Minor features (testing):
3074 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
3077 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
3078 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
3079 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
3080 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
3081 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
3082 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
3083 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
3085 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
3086 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
3087 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
3088 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3089 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
3090 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
3093 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
3094 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
3095 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
3096 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
3098 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3099 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
3100 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
3101 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
3102 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
3105 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
3106 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
3108 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
3109 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3111 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
3112 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
3113 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3114 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
3116 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3117 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
3118 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
3121 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
3122 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
3123 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
3124 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
3125 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
3126 it to older supported release series.
3128 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
3129 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
3130 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
3131 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
3132 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
3133 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
3134 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
3135 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
3136 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
3137 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
3138 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
3139 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
3140 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
3142 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
3143 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
3144 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
3145 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
3146 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
3147 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
3148 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
3149 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3151 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
3152 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
3153 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3155 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
3156 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
3157 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
3158 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3160 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
3161 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
3162 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
3163 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
3165 o Minor features (directory authority):
3166 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
3167 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
3169 o Minor features (geoip):
3170 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3173 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
3174 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
3175 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
3178 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
3179 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
3180 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
3181 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
3182 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3184 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
3185 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
3186 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
3187 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
3188 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3190 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
3191 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
3192 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
3193 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
3195 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
3196 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
3197 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
3198 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
3199 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3201 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
3202 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
3203 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
3204 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3206 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3207 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
3208 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
3209 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3210 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
3211 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
3212 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
3214 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3215 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
3216 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
3217 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
3218 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3219 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
3220 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
3221 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
3223 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3224 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
3225 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
3226 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
3227 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
3228 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
3229 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3231 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
3232 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
3233 would call the Rust implementation of
3234 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
3235 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
3236 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
3237 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
3238 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3240 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
3241 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
3242 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
3245 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
3246 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
3247 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
3248 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
3249 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
3250 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3252 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3253 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
3254 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
3255 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
3256 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3258 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3259 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
3261 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
3262 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
3263 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
3266 o Documentation (man page):
3267 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
3268 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
3272 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
3273 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
3274 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
3275 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
3276 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
3277 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
3280 o Major features (embedding):
3281 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
3282 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
3283 Closes ticket 23684.
3284 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
3285 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
3286 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
3287 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
3288 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
3289 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
3291 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
3292 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
3293 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
3294 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
3295 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
3296 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
3297 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
3298 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
3299 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
3300 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
3301 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
3304 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
3305 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
3306 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
3307 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
3308 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
3309 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
3310 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
3312 o Major features (onion services):
3313 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
3314 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
3315 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
3316 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
3317 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
3320 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
3321 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
3322 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
3323 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
3324 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
3325 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
3326 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
3327 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
3329 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
3330 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
3331 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
3332 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
3333 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
3335 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
3336 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
3337 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
3338 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
3339 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
3340 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
3341 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3343 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
3344 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
3345 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
3346 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
3347 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
3348 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
3349 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3350 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
3351 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
3352 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
3353 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3355 o Major bugfixes (relays):
3356 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
3357 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
3358 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
3359 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
3360 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
3361 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3363 o Minor feature (IPv6):
3364 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
3365 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
3366 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
3367 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
3368 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
3369 Implements ticket 23827.
3371 o Minor features (cleanup):
3372 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
3373 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
3375 o Minor features (defensive programming):
3376 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
3377 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
3378 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
3379 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
3380 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
3381 once. Part of ticket 24337.
3382 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
3383 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
3384 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
3386 o Minor features (embedding):
3387 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
3388 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
3389 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
3390 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
3391 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
3392 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
3393 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
3394 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
3395 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
3396 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
3397 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
3398 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
3399 Closes ticket 23848.
3400 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
3401 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
3402 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
3404 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
3405 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
3406 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
3407 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
3408 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
3409 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
3410 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
3411 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
3414 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
3415 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
3416 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
3417 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
3418 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
3419 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
3420 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
3422 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
3423 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
3424 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
3425 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
3426 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
3427 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
3428 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
3429 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
3430 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
3431 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
3432 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
3433 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
3435 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
3436 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
3437 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
3439 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
3440 Implements ticket 24791.
3442 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
3443 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
3444 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
3445 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
3446 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
3447 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
3449 o Minor features (heartbeat):
3450 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
3451 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
3454 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
3455 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
3456 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
3457 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
3458 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
3460 o Minor features (log messages):
3461 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
3462 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
3463 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
3464 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
3466 o Minor features (logging, android):
3467 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
3470 o Minor features (performance):
3471 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
3472 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
3473 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
3474 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
3476 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
3477 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
3478 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
3479 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
3480 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
3481 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
3482 Implements ticket 24374.
3484 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
3485 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
3486 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
3487 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
3488 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
3490 o Minor features (performance, windows):
3491 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
3492 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
3493 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
3496 o Major features (relay):
3497 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
3498 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
3499 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
3500 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
3501 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
3503 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
3504 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
3505 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
3506 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
3507 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
3508 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
3509 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
3510 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
3511 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
3513 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
3514 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
3515 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
3516 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3518 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
3519 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
3520 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
3521 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3522 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
3523 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
3524 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3525 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
3526 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
3527 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
3528 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
3529 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
3532 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
3533 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
3534 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
3535 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
3538 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
3539 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
3540 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
3543 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
3544 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
3545 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
3547 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
3548 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3549 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
3550 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
3551 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
3553 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
3554 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3555 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
3556 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3558 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
3559 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
3560 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3561 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
3562 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
3563 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3565 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3566 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
3567 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
3568 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
3570 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
3571 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
3572 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
3573 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
3574 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3575 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
3578 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
3579 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
3580 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
3581 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3583 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
3584 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
3585 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
3586 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3588 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
3589 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
3590 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
3591 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
3592 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
3593 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3594 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
3595 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
3596 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
3597 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
3598 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
3599 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3601 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3602 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
3603 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3604 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
3605 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
3607 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3608 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
3610 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
3611 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
3612 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
3613 "aruna1234" and teor.
3614 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
3615 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
3616 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
3617 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
3619 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
3620 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
3621 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
3622 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
3623 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
3624 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
3625 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
3626 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
3627 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
3628 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
3630 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
3631 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
3634 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
3635 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
3637 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
3638 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
3639 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
3640 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
3641 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
3642 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
3645 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
3646 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
3647 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
3648 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
3649 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
3651 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
3652 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
3653 adding very little except for unit test.
3655 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
3656 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
3657 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
3658 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
3660 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
3661 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
3662 const. Implements ticket 24489.
3665 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
3666 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
3668 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
3669 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
3670 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
3671 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
3672 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
3673 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
3675 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
3676 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
3677 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
3678 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
3679 with the 0.2.9 series.
3681 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
3682 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3684 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
3685 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
3686 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
3687 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
3688 information. Closes ticket 24801.
3689 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
3690 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
3691 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
3692 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
3694 o Minor features (geoip):
3695 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3698 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
3699 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
3700 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
3701 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
3702 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
3705 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3706 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
3707 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3709 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
3710 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
3711 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
3712 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
3716 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
3717 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
3718 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
3719 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
3720 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
3721 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
3722 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
3724 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
3725 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
3726 will be nearly identical to this.
3728 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
3729 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
3730 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
3731 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
3732 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
3733 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
3734 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3736 o Minor features (geoip):
3737 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3740 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
3741 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
3742 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
3743 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3745 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
3746 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
3747 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
3748 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
3749 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
3752 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
3753 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
3754 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
3755 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
3756 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
3757 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3760 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
3761 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
3762 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
3764 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
3765 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
3766 be nearly identical to this.
3768 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
3769 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
3770 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
3771 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
3772 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
3773 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
3774 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3776 o Minor features (logging):
3777 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
3780 o Minor features (portability):
3781 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
3782 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
3785 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
3786 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
3787 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
3788 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
3789 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3790 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
3791 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
3792 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
3793 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3794 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
3795 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
3796 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
3797 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3799 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3800 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
3801 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3803 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
3804 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
3805 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
3806 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
3807 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
3808 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
3809 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
3812 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
3813 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
3814 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
3815 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
3816 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
3817 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
3818 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3820 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
3821 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
3822 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
3823 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3824 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
3825 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
3826 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
3827 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3828 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
3829 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
3830 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3833 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
3834 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
3835 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
3836 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
3839 o Major bugfixes (security):
3840 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3841 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3842 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3843 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3844 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3845 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3846 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3847 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
3848 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
3849 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
3851 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3852 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3853 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3854 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3855 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3856 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3857 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3860 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
3861 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3862 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3863 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3864 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3866 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
3867 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3868 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3869 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3870 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3871 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3872 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
3873 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
3874 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3876 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
3877 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
3878 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
3879 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
3881 o Minor features (directory authority):
3882 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3885 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3886 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
3887 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
3888 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3891 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
3892 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
3893 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
3894 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
3896 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3897 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3898 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3899 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3900 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3901 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3902 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3903 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3904 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
3905 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
3906 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
3908 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3909 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3910 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3911 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3912 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3913 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3914 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3917 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3918 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3919 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3920 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3921 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3923 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3924 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3925 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3926 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3927 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3928 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3929 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
3930 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
3931 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3933 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3934 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
3935 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
3936 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
3937 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
3938 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
3941 o Minor features (bridge):
3942 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3943 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3944 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3945 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3948 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3949 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3952 o Minor features (geoip):
3953 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3956 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3957 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
3958 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
3959 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
3960 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3962 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3963 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
3964 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3966 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3967 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
3968 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
3969 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
3970 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
3971 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3973 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3974 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
3975 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
3978 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3979 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
3980 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
3981 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
3982 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3985 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
3986 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3987 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
3988 to another of the releases coming out today.
3990 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
3991 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
3992 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3994 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3995 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3996 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3997 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3998 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3999 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4000 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4001 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4002 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
4003 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
4004 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
4006 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4007 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4008 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4009 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4010 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4011 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4012 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4015 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4016 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4017 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4018 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4019 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4021 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4022 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4023 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4024 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4025 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4026 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4027 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
4028 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
4029 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4031 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4032 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
4033 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
4034 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
4035 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
4036 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
4039 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4040 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
4041 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
4042 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
4043 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
4044 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
4046 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4047 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4048 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4049 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4050 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4053 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4054 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4057 o Minor features (geoip):
4058 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4061 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4062 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
4063 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
4064 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
4065 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4067 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4068 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
4069 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4071 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4072 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4073 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4074 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4075 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4076 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4078 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4079 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4080 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4081 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4082 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4084 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4085 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4086 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4089 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
4090 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4091 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4092 to another of the releases coming out today.
4094 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4095 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
4096 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
4097 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
4098 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
4099 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
4102 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4103 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4104 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4105 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4106 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4107 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4108 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4109 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4110 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
4111 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
4112 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
4114 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4115 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4116 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4117 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4118 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4119 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4120 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4123 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4124 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4125 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4126 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4127 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4129 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4130 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4131 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4132 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4133 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4134 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4136 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4137 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4138 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4139 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4140 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4143 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4144 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4147 o Minor features (geoip):
4148 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4151 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4152 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
4153 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
4154 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
4155 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
4156 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
4158 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4159 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
4160 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
4161 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
4162 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4164 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4165 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
4166 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4168 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4169 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4170 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4171 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4172 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4173 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4175 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4176 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4177 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4178 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4179 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4181 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4182 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4183 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4186 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
4187 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4188 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4189 to another of the releases coming out today.
4191 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
4192 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
4193 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4195 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4196 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4197 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4198 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4199 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4200 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4201 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4202 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4203 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4204 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4205 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4206 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4207 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4208 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4209 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4212 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4213 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4214 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4215 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4216 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4218 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4219 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
4220 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
4221 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
4222 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
4225 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4226 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4227 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4228 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4229 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4232 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4233 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4236 o Minor features (geoip):
4237 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4240 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4241 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4242 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4245 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
4246 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4247 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4248 to another of the releases coming out today.
4250 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
4251 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
4252 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4254 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4255 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4256 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4257 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4258 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4259 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4260 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4261 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4262 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4263 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4264 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4265 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4266 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4267 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4268 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4271 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4272 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4273 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4274 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4275 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4276 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4278 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4279 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4280 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4281 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4282 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4285 o Minor features (geoip):
4286 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4290 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
4291 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
4292 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
4293 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
4294 since the 0.3.0.x series.
4296 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
4297 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
4300 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
4301 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
4302 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
4303 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
4304 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
4305 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
4306 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
4307 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
4308 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
4309 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
4310 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
4313 o Minor features (directory authority):
4314 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
4315 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
4316 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
4317 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
4319 o Minor features (geoip):
4320 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4323 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4324 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
4325 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
4327 o Minor features (logging):
4328 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
4329 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
4331 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
4332 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
4334 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4335 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
4336 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
4337 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
4338 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
4339 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
4340 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
4341 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
4343 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4344 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
4345 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
4348 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
4349 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
4350 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
4351 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4353 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
4354 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
4355 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4356 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
4357 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
4358 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
4359 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
4360 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
4361 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
4364 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4365 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
4366 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4367 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
4368 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
4369 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
4370 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4372 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
4373 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
4374 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
4375 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
4376 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
4377 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4379 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4380 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
4381 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
4382 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
4383 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4384 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
4385 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
4387 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
4388 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
4389 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4391 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4392 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
4393 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4394 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
4395 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
4396 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
4397 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
4398 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
4401 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
4402 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
4403 section. Closes ticket 24254.
4406 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
4407 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
4408 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
4409 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
4412 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
4413 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
4414 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
4415 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
4416 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
4417 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
4420 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
4421 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
4422 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
4423 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
4424 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4426 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
4427 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
4428 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
4429 Closes ticket 23753.
4431 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
4432 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
4433 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
4434 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
4435 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
4437 o Minor features (testing):
4438 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
4439 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
4441 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
4442 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
4443 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
4444 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
4445 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4447 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
4448 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
4449 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
4450 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
4451 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
4454 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
4455 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
4456 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
4457 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
4458 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4460 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
4461 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
4462 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
4463 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4465 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4466 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
4467 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
4469 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
4470 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4471 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
4473 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4474 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
4475 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
4476 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4477 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
4478 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4480 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
4481 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
4482 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
4483 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
4484 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
4485 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
4486 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4487 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
4488 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
4489 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4490 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
4491 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4493 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
4494 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4495 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4496 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4497 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4499 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4500 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
4501 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
4502 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
4503 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
4504 Closes ticket 24109.
4507 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
4508 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
4509 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
4510 directory authority, Bastet.
4512 o Directory authority changes:
4513 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4514 Closes ticket 23910.
4515 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4516 Closes ticket 23592.
4518 o Minor features (bridge):
4519 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
4520 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
4521 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
4522 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
4523 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
4524 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
4525 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
4527 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
4528 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
4529 Resolves ticket 23670.
4531 o Minor features (geoip):
4532 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4535 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
4536 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
4537 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
4538 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4540 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4541 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
4542 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4544 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
4545 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
4546 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
4547 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
4548 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
4549 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4551 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
4552 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
4553 only fetch the service descriptor once.
4554 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
4555 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
4556 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4558 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
4559 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
4560 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
4561 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
4563 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
4564 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
4565 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4567 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
4568 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
4569 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
4570 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
4571 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
4573 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
4574 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
4575 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4577 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4578 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
4579 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
4582 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4583 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
4584 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
4585 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
4586 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4587 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
4588 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
4589 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
4591 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
4592 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
4593 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
4594 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
4595 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
4598 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
4599 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
4600 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
4601 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
4602 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
4606 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
4607 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
4608 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
4610 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
4611 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
4612 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4614 o Directory authority changes:
4615 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4616 Closes ticket 23910.
4617 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4618 Closes ticket 23592.
4620 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4621 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
4622 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
4623 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
4624 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
4626 o Minor features (geoip):
4627 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4630 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4631 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
4632 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
4633 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
4634 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
4635 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
4636 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
4637 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
4638 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
4640 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4641 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
4642 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
4643 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
4644 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
4645 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
4646 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
4647 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
4648 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
4651 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
4652 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
4653 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
4654 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
4656 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
4657 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
4658 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4660 o Directory authority changes:
4661 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4662 Closes ticket 23910.
4663 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4664 Closes ticket 23592.
4666 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4667 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4668 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4669 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4671 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4672 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4673 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4674 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4675 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4677 o Minor features (geoip):
4678 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4682 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
4683 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
4684 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
4685 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
4687 o Directory authority changes:
4688 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4689 Closes ticket 23910.
4690 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4691 Closes ticket 23592.
4693 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4694 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4695 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4696 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4698 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4699 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4700 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4701 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4702 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4704 o Minor features (geoip):
4705 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4708 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4709 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
4710 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
4711 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
4712 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
4713 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
4714 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
4715 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
4718 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4719 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
4720 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4722 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4723 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
4724 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
4725 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
4726 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
4727 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4728 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
4731 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
4732 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
4733 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
4734 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
4736 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
4737 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
4738 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4740 o Directory authority changes:
4741 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4742 Closes ticket 23910.
4743 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4744 Closes ticket 23592.
4746 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4747 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4748 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4749 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4751 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4752 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4753 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4754 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4755 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4757 o Minor features (geoip):
4758 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4761 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4762 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
4763 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
4764 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
4765 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
4766 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
4767 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
4768 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
4771 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4772 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
4773 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
4774 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4776 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4777 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
4778 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4780 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4781 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
4782 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
4783 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
4784 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
4785 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4786 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
4789 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
4790 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
4791 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
4792 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
4793 a new directory authority, Bastet.
4795 o Directory authority changes:
4796 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4797 Closes ticket 23910.
4798 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4799 Closes ticket 23592.
4801 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4802 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4803 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4804 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4806 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4807 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4808 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4809 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4810 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4812 o Minor features (geoip):
4813 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4816 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4817 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
4818 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
4819 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
4821 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4822 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
4823 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
4826 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4827 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
4828 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
4830 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4831 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
4832 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
4833 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4835 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4836 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
4837 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4839 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4840 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
4841 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
4845 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
4846 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
4847 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
4848 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
4849 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
4850 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
4852 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
4853 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
4854 include better testing and logging.
4856 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
4859 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
4860 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4861 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4862 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4864 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
4865 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
4866 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
4867 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
4868 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
4869 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
4870 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4872 o Minor features (build, compilation):
4873 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
4874 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
4875 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
4876 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
4877 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
4878 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
4879 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
4880 Closes ticket 23643.
4882 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4883 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4884 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4885 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4886 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4888 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
4889 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
4890 the circuit identifier(s).
4891 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
4892 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
4894 o Minor features (logging):
4895 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
4896 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
4897 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
4898 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
4899 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
4901 o Minor features (relay):
4902 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
4903 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
4904 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
4905 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
4907 o Minor features (robustness):
4908 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
4909 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
4911 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
4912 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
4913 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
4914 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
4915 related to ticket 23080.
4917 o Minor features (testing):
4918 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
4919 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
4922 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
4923 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
4924 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
4926 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
4927 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
4930 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
4931 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
4932 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
4933 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
4934 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
4935 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
4936 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
4937 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
4938 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4940 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
4941 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
4942 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
4945 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4946 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
4947 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
4948 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4950 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
4951 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
4952 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
4953 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
4954 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4955 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
4956 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
4957 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
4960 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
4961 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
4962 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
4963 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4965 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
4966 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4967 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4968 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4969 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4970 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4972 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
4973 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
4974 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
4975 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4976 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
4977 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
4978 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4979 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
4980 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4981 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
4982 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
4984 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
4985 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
4986 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
4987 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4988 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
4989 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4991 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4992 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
4993 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
4995 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
4996 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
4998 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
4999 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
5000 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5002 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5003 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
5004 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
5007 o Deprecated features:
5008 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
5009 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
5010 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
5013 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
5014 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5015 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
5016 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
5017 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
5018 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
5019 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
5020 Closes ticket 18736.
5023 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
5024 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
5025 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
5026 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
5027 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
5028 features and bugfixes here.
5030 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
5032 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
5033 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
5034 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
5035 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
5036 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
5037 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
5038 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
5039 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
5040 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
5041 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
5042 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
5043 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
5045 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
5046 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
5047 more information, see the design paper at
5048 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
5049 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
5050 Closes ticket 12541.
5052 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
5053 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
5054 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
5055 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
5056 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
5057 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
5060 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
5061 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
5063 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
5066 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
5069 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
5071 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
5073 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
5075 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
5076 they are 56 characters long, as in
5077 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
5079 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
5080 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
5081 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
5082 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
5083 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
5086 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
5087 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
5088 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
5089 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
5090 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
5091 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
5094 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
5095 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
5096 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
5097 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
5099 o Minor features (bug detection):
5100 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
5101 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
5102 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
5104 o Minor features (client):
5105 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
5106 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
5107 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
5108 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
5109 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
5110 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
5111 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
5112 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
5113 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
5114 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
5116 o Minor features (command line):
5117 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
5118 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
5119 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
5121 o Minor features (control port):
5122 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
5123 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
5124 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
5126 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
5127 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
5129 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
5130 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
5131 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
5132 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
5133 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
5134 Closes ticket 23237.
5135 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
5136 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
5138 o Minor features (development support):
5139 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
5140 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
5141 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
5142 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
5143 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
5144 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
5146 o Minor features (ed25519):
5147 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
5148 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
5149 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
5151 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
5152 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
5153 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
5155 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
5156 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
5157 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
5158 another program, regardless of the settings of
5159 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
5160 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
5161 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
5163 o Minor features (logging):
5164 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
5165 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
5166 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
5168 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
5169 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
5171 o Minor features (portability):
5172 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
5173 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
5174 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
5175 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
5177 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
5178 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
5179 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
5180 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
5181 results. Closes ticket 22731.
5183 o Minor features (startup, safety):
5184 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
5185 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
5188 o Minor features (static analysis):
5189 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
5190 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
5193 o Minor features (testing):
5194 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
5195 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
5196 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
5197 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
5198 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
5200 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
5201 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
5202 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
5203 Coverity as CID 1415728.
5205 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
5206 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
5207 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
5208 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
5209 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
5210 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
5211 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
5212 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5214 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5215 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
5216 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
5217 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
5218 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5219 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
5220 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
5221 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
5223 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5224 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5225 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5227 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
5228 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
5229 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
5230 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
5232 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
5233 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
5234 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
5235 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
5236 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
5237 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
5239 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
5240 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
5243 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
5244 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
5245 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
5246 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5248 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
5249 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
5250 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
5251 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
5252 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
5253 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
5254 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
5257 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
5258 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
5259 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
5260 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5262 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
5263 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
5264 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
5266 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5267 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
5268 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
5269 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5270 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
5271 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
5273 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
5274 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
5275 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
5277 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
5278 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
5279 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
5281 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
5282 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
5283 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
5284 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
5286 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5287 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
5288 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5290 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5291 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
5292 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
5293 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
5294 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5295 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5296 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5297 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5299 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5300 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
5301 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
5302 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5303 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
5304 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
5305 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5307 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
5308 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
5309 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
5310 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5312 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5313 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
5314 function from the general code to handle channel state
5315 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
5316 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
5317 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
5318 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
5319 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
5320 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
5321 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
5322 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
5324 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
5325 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
5327 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
5328 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
5329 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
5330 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
5331 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
5332 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
5333 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
5334 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
5335 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
5336 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
5337 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
5338 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
5340 o Deprecated features:
5341 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
5342 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
5343 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
5347 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
5348 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
5349 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
5350 Closes ticket 15645.
5351 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
5352 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
5353 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
5354 file. Closes ticket 21148.
5357 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
5358 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
5359 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
5360 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
5361 Closes ticket 21031.
5362 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
5363 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
5366 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
5367 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
5370 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
5371 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
5372 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
5373 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5375 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
5376 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
5377 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
5378 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
5380 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5381 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5382 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5383 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5384 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5390 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5391 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
5392 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
5395 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5396 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5397 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5398 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5399 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5400 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5401 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5402 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5403 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5405 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5406 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5407 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5408 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5409 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5410 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5411 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5412 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5413 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5416 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
5417 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
5420 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
5421 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
5422 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
5423 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5425 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
5426 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
5427 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
5428 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
5429 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
5430 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
5431 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
5433 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
5434 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
5435 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
5436 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
5438 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
5439 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
5440 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5442 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5443 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
5444 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5445 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
5447 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5448 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5449 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5450 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5451 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5453 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5454 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
5455 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
5456 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
5458 o Minor features (geoip):
5459 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5462 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5463 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
5464 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5465 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
5467 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5468 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
5469 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5470 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
5471 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5472 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
5473 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
5474 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5476 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5477 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
5478 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5480 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5481 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
5482 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
5485 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5486 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
5487 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5488 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
5489 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5491 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5492 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
5493 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
5494 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
5495 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
5496 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5498 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5499 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5500 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5501 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5502 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5503 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5504 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5505 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5506 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5508 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5509 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
5510 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
5511 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5513 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5514 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
5515 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5517 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5518 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
5519 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
5520 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
5521 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5523 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
5524 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
5525 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
5528 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5529 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
5530 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
5531 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
5532 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5534 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5535 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5536 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5537 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5538 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5539 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5540 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5541 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5542 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5545 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
5546 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
5549 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
5550 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
5551 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
5552 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5554 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5555 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
5556 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
5557 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
5560 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5563 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5564 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
5565 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5567 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5568 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
5569 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5570 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
5571 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5573 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5574 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
5575 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
5576 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5578 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5579 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
5580 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
5582 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
5583 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
5584 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
5585 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
5588 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
5589 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
5591 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
5592 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
5593 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
5594 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
5595 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
5596 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
5597 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
5599 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
5600 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
5601 disabled. For more information, see
5602 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5604 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
5605 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
5606 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
5607 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
5608 with the 0.2.9 series.
5610 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
5611 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5613 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
5614 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
5615 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
5616 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
5617 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
5619 o Minor features (defensive programming):
5620 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
5621 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
5622 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
5625 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5626 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
5627 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
5628 attempt for bug 23105.
5630 o Minor features (geoip):
5631 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5634 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5635 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
5636 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5638 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5639 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
5640 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5641 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
5642 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5644 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5645 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
5646 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
5647 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5649 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
5650 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
5651 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
5655 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
5656 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
5657 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
5658 Windows directory caches.
5660 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
5661 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
5662 will be nearly identical to it.
5664 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
5665 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
5666 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
5667 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
5668 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
5669 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5671 o Minor features (directory authority):
5672 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
5673 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
5674 Closes ticket 22348.
5676 o Minor features (geoip):
5677 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5680 o Minor features (testing):
5681 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
5684 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
5685 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
5686 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5688 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
5689 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
5690 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
5691 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
5692 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
5693 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
5694 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
5695 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
5696 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
5697 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5699 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
5700 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
5701 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
5703 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
5704 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
5705 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
5706 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
5708 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5709 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
5710 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
5711 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
5712 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5714 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
5715 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
5716 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
5717 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
5718 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
5719 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
5721 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
5722 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
5723 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
5724 with the clang static analyzer.
5726 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5727 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
5728 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
5729 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
5730 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
5733 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
5734 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
5735 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
5736 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
5737 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
5738 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5739 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
5742 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
5743 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
5744 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
5745 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
5747 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5748 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5749 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5750 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5751 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5752 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5753 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5754 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5755 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5757 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5758 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
5759 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5760 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
5762 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5763 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5764 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5765 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5766 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5768 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5769 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5772 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
5773 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
5774 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5775 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
5777 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5778 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
5779 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5780 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
5781 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5782 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
5783 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
5784 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
5787 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5788 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
5789 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
5792 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5793 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
5794 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
5795 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
5796 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
5797 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5799 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5800 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
5801 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
5802 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5804 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5805 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
5806 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5808 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
5809 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
5810 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5813 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
5814 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
5815 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
5816 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
5817 next version will be a release candidate.
5819 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
5820 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
5821 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
5822 one of those versions should upgrade.
5824 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
5825 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5826 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5827 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5828 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5829 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5830 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5831 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5832 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5834 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
5835 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5836 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5837 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5838 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5840 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
5841 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
5842 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
5843 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
5844 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
5845 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5847 o Minor features (bridge authority):
5848 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
5849 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
5851 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
5852 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
5853 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
5854 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
5855 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
5858 o Minor features (geoip):
5859 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5862 o Minor features (relay, performance):
5863 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
5864 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
5865 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
5866 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
5867 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
5870 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
5871 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
5872 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
5873 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
5874 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
5876 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
5877 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
5878 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
5879 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
5880 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5882 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
5883 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
5884 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5885 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
5886 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5887 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
5888 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
5889 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5890 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
5891 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
5892 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
5895 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
5896 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
5897 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
5898 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
5899 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
5900 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5902 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
5903 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
5904 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
5905 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
5906 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
5907 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
5908 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
5909 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
5912 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
5913 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
5914 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
5917 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
5918 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
5919 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
5920 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5922 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5923 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
5924 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5926 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5927 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
5928 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
5929 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
5931 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
5932 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
5933 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
5934 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
5935 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5936 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
5937 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5940 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
5941 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
5942 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
5943 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
5944 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
5947 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
5948 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
5952 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
5953 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
5954 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
5955 close ticket 22623.)
5957 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
5958 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
5959 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
5960 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
5961 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
5962 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
5964 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
5965 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
5966 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
5967 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5969 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
5970 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
5971 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
5972 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
5973 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5975 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
5976 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
5977 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
5978 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5980 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
5981 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
5982 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
5983 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
5985 o Minor features (geoip):
5986 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5989 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
5990 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
5991 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
5993 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
5994 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5995 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
5996 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
5997 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
5998 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
6000 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
6001 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
6003 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
6004 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
6005 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
6006 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
6007 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6009 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
6010 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
6011 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
6012 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
6013 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6014 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6015 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6016 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6017 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6018 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6019 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6020 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6022 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6023 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
6024 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
6025 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
6026 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6027 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
6028 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
6029 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
6030 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6032 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6033 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
6034 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
6035 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
6036 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
6037 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
6038 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
6039 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
6040 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
6041 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
6042 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6043 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
6044 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
6045 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
6046 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
6047 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6049 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
6050 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
6051 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
6052 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
6053 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
6054 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
6055 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
6059 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
6061 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
6062 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
6064 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
6065 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
6066 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
6070 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
6071 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
6072 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
6073 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
6074 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
6077 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
6080 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6081 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
6082 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
6083 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
6084 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
6085 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
6087 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6088 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
6089 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
6090 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6092 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6093 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
6094 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
6095 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6097 o Minor features (geoip):
6098 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6101 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6102 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
6103 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
6104 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
6105 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6107 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6108 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
6109 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
6110 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
6111 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6113 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6114 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6115 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6116 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6117 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6118 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6119 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6120 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6121 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6124 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
6125 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
6126 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6127 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6128 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
6130 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
6131 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
6132 bugfixes described below.
6134 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6135 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
6136 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
6137 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6138 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6139 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6140 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6143 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
6144 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
6145 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
6146 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
6147 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
6148 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
6149 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
6152 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
6153 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
6154 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
6155 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
6156 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
6157 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
6158 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
6159 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6160 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
6161 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
6162 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
6163 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
6164 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
6167 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
6168 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
6169 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
6171 o Minor features (code style):
6172 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
6173 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
6174 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
6176 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6177 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
6178 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
6179 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
6180 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
6182 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6183 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6184 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6186 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
6187 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
6188 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6190 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
6191 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
6192 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
6193 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
6194 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
6195 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
6196 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6198 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
6199 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
6200 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
6201 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
6202 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6204 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6205 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
6206 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
6210 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
6213 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
6214 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
6215 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6216 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6217 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
6219 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
6220 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
6221 bugfixes described below.
6223 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
6224 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6225 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
6226 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
6227 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6228 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6229 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6230 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6233 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6234 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
6235 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
6236 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
6237 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
6238 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
6239 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
6242 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6243 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
6244 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
6245 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
6246 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
6247 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
6248 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
6249 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6250 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
6251 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
6252 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
6253 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
6254 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
6257 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6258 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
6259 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
6262 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6263 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6264 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6265 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6266 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6268 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6269 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
6270 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6272 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6273 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6274 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6276 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6277 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
6278 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
6279 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
6280 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
6281 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
6282 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6284 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
6286 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
6287 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
6288 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6291 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
6292 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6293 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6294 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6295 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6296 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6298 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
6299 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
6300 bugfixes described below.
6302 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
6303 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6304 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6305 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6306 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6309 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6310 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
6311 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
6312 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
6313 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
6314 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
6315 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
6318 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6319 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6320 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6321 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6322 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6324 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
6325 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
6326 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
6327 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
6328 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
6329 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
6330 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
6332 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
6333 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
6334 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
6335 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
6336 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
6338 o Minor features (geoip):
6339 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6342 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
6343 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
6344 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
6345 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6347 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6348 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6349 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6351 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
6352 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
6353 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
6354 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
6355 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
6358 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
6359 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
6360 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
6361 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
6362 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6364 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
6365 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6366 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6367 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6368 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6369 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6371 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6372 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6373 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6374 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6377 o Minor features (geoip):
6378 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6381 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6382 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6383 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6384 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6385 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6387 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6388 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6389 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6391 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
6392 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6393 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6394 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6395 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6396 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6398 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6399 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6400 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6401 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6404 o Minor features (geoip):
6405 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6408 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6409 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6410 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6413 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
6414 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6415 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6416 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6417 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6418 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6420 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6421 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6422 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6423 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6426 o Minor features (geoip):
6427 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6430 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6431 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6432 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6434 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
6435 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6436 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6437 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6438 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6439 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6441 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6442 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6443 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6444 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6447 o Minor features (geoip):
6448 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6451 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6452 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6453 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6455 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
6456 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6457 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6458 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6459 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6460 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6462 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6463 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6464 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6465 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6468 o Minor features (geoip):
6469 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6472 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6473 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6474 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6477 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
6478 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
6479 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
6480 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
6482 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
6483 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
6484 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
6485 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
6486 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6488 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6489 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
6490 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
6493 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
6494 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
6495 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
6496 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6499 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
6500 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
6501 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
6502 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
6503 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
6506 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
6507 security, correctness, and performance.
6509 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
6511 o Major features (directory protocol):
6512 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
6513 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
6514 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
6515 now request these documents when available. When both client and
6516 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
6517 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
6518 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
6519 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
6520 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
6521 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
6522 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
6523 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
6524 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
6525 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
6526 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
6527 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
6528 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
6530 o Major features (experimental):
6531 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
6532 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
6533 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
6534 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
6535 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
6536 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
6537 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
6539 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
6540 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
6541 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
6542 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
6543 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
6544 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
6547 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
6548 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
6549 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
6550 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
6551 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
6552 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
6553 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
6554 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
6555 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
6556 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
6559 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
6560 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
6561 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
6562 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
6563 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
6564 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
6565 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
6566 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
6567 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
6568 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
6569 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
6570 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
6571 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
6572 Otherwise it is at info.
6574 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
6575 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
6576 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
6577 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6579 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
6580 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
6581 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6582 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
6584 o Minor features (security, windows):
6585 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
6586 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
6587 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
6588 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
6589 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
6591 o Minor features (config options):
6592 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
6593 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
6594 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
6595 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
6596 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
6597 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
6598 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
6599 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
6601 o Minor features (controller):
6602 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
6603 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
6605 o Minor features (defaults):
6606 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
6607 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
6608 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
6609 can. Closes ticket 21407.
6610 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
6611 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
6612 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
6613 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
6614 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
6615 Closes ticket 21641.
6617 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6618 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
6619 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
6620 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6621 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6622 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6623 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6625 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
6626 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
6627 introduction points than specified in
6628 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
6629 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
6630 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
6631 21594; closes ticket 21622.
6632 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
6633 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
6634 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
6635 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
6637 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6638 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
6639 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
6640 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
6641 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
6642 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
6643 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
6644 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
6645 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
6646 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
6648 o Minor features (logging):
6649 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
6650 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
6651 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
6652 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
6655 o Minor features (performance):
6656 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
6657 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
6659 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
6660 speed some controller functions.
6662 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
6663 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
6664 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
6665 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
6667 o Minor features (safety):
6668 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
6669 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
6670 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
6673 o Minor features (testing):
6674 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
6675 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
6676 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
6677 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
6678 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
6679 on. Closes ticket 21439.
6680 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
6681 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
6682 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
6683 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
6684 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
6685 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
6686 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
6687 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
6688 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
6689 21507. Partially implements 21470.
6691 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
6692 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
6693 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
6694 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
6696 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
6697 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
6698 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
6699 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
6702 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6703 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
6704 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6706 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
6707 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
6708 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
6709 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
6710 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
6711 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
6712 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
6713 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
6714 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
6715 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
6716 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
6717 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
6718 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
6719 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
6721 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6722 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
6723 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6724 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
6725 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
6726 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
6727 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
6728 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6730 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6731 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
6732 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
6733 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6734 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
6735 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
6736 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
6738 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
6739 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
6740 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
6741 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
6742 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
6744 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
6745 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
6746 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6747 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
6748 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
6749 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6750 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
6751 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6752 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
6753 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
6754 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6756 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6757 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
6758 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
6759 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6760 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
6761 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
6762 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6764 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
6765 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
6766 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
6768 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
6769 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
6770 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
6771 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
6772 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
6774 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6775 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
6776 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
6777 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6778 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
6779 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6780 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
6781 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
6782 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
6783 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
6785 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
6786 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
6787 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
6788 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
6789 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6791 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
6792 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
6793 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6795 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6796 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
6797 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
6798 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
6799 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
6800 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
6801 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
6802 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
6803 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
6804 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
6805 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
6806 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
6808 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
6809 Resolves ticket 22213.
6810 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
6811 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
6812 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
6813 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
6814 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
6815 types. Closes ticket 21651.
6816 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
6817 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
6820 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
6821 Closes ticket 21873.
6822 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
6823 Closes ticket 21151.
6824 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
6825 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
6827 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
6828 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6829 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
6830 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
6832 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
6833 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
6834 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
6835 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
6836 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
6837 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
6838 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
6839 default behavior is now unavailable.
6840 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
6841 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
6842 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
6843 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
6844 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
6845 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
6846 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
6848 o Removed features (tools):
6849 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
6850 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
6851 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
6852 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
6853 required. Closes ticket 21842.
6856 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
6857 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
6858 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
6859 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
6860 clients are not affected.
6862 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
6863 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
6864 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
6865 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
6866 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
6867 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6870 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6873 o Minor features (future-proofing):
6874 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
6875 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
6876 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
6877 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
6878 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
6879 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
6881 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6882 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
6883 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
6884 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
6885 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
6889 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
6890 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
6892 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
6893 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
6894 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
6895 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
6896 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
6897 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
6900 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
6901 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
6903 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
6904 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
6905 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
6906 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
6907 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
6909 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
6910 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6912 o Minor features (geoip):
6913 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6916 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
6917 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
6918 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
6919 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6921 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
6922 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
6923 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
6924 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6927 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
6928 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
6929 0.3.0 release series.
6931 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
6932 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
6933 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
6936 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
6937 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
6938 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
6939 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6941 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
6942 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
6943 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
6944 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6945 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
6947 o Minor features (geoip):
6948 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6951 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
6952 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
6953 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
6954 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
6957 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6958 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
6959 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
6960 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6961 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
6962 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
6963 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
6964 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6966 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6967 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
6968 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6970 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6971 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
6972 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
6975 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
6976 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
6977 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
6978 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
6979 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6982 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
6983 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
6984 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
6988 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
6989 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
6990 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
6991 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
6992 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
6995 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
6996 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
6997 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
6999 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7000 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7001 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7002 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7003 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7004 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7005 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7007 o Minor features (geoip):
7008 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7012 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
7013 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7014 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
7015 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7018 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
7019 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
7020 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7022 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7023 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7025 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7026 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7027 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7029 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7030 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7031 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7034 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7035 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7036 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7037 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7038 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7039 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7040 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7041 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7042 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7044 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7045 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7046 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7047 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7048 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7049 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7050 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7051 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7052 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7053 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7054 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7055 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7056 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7058 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7059 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7060 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7061 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7062 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7064 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7065 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7066 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7068 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7069 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7070 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7071 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7072 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7073 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7074 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7077 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7078 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7079 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7080 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7081 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7082 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7083 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7085 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7086 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7087 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7088 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7091 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7092 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7093 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7094 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7096 o Minor features (geoip):
7097 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7101 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
7102 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7103 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
7104 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7107 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
7108 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
7109 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7111 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7112 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7114 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7115 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7116 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7118 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7119 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7120 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7123 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7124 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7125 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7126 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7127 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7128 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7129 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7130 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7131 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7133 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7134 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7135 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7136 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7137 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7138 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7139 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7140 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7141 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7143 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7144 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7145 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7146 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7147 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7149 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
7150 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
7151 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
7152 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
7153 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
7156 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7157 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7158 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7159 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7160 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7162 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7163 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7164 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7166 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7167 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
7168 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
7169 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
7170 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
7171 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
7174 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7175 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7176 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7177 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7178 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7179 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7180 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7183 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7184 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7185 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7186 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7187 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7188 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7189 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7191 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7192 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7193 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7194 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7197 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7198 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7199 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7200 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7202 o Minor features (geoip):
7203 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7206 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7207 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
7208 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
7211 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
7212 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7213 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
7214 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7217 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
7218 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
7219 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7221 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7222 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7224 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7225 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7226 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7228 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7229 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7230 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7233 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7234 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7235 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7236 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7237 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7238 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7239 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7240 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7241 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7243 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7244 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7245 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7246 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7247 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7248 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7249 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7250 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7251 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7253 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7254 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7255 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7256 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7257 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7259 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
7260 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
7261 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
7262 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
7263 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
7266 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7267 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7268 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7269 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7270 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7272 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7273 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7274 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7276 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7277 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
7278 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
7279 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
7280 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
7281 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
7284 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7285 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7286 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7287 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7288 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7289 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7290 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7293 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7294 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7295 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7296 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7297 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7298 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7299 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7301 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7302 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7303 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7304 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7307 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7308 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7309 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7310 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7312 o Minor features (geoip):
7313 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7316 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7317 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
7318 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
7320 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
7321 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
7322 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
7323 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
7324 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
7325 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
7327 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7328 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
7329 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
7333 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
7334 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7335 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
7336 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7339 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
7340 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
7341 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7343 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7344 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7346 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7347 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7348 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7350 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7351 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7352 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7355 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7356 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7357 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7358 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7359 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7360 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7361 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7362 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7363 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7365 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7366 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7367 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7368 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7369 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7370 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7371 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7372 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7373 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7375 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
7376 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
7377 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
7378 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
7379 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
7382 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7383 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7384 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7385 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7386 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7388 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7389 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7390 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7392 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7393 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
7394 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
7395 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
7396 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
7397 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
7400 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7401 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7402 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7403 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7404 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7405 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7406 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7409 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7410 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7411 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7412 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7413 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7414 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7415 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7417 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7418 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7419 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7420 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7423 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7424 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7425 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7426 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7428 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7429 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
7430 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
7431 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
7433 o Minor features (geoip):
7434 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7437 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7438 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
7439 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
7441 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7442 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
7443 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
7447 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
7448 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
7449 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
7450 keep them from coming back.
7452 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
7453 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
7454 will be nearly identical to it.
7456 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7457 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
7458 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
7459 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
7460 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
7461 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7463 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
7464 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
7465 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7467 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
7468 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
7469 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
7470 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
7471 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
7472 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
7473 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
7474 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
7475 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
7476 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7477 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7478 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7479 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7480 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7481 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7483 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
7484 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
7485 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
7487 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7488 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
7489 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
7491 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
7492 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
7493 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7494 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
7495 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
7496 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
7497 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
7499 o Minor features (geoip):
7500 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7503 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
7504 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
7505 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
7508 o Minor features (testing):
7509 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
7510 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
7511 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
7513 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
7514 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
7515 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
7517 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
7518 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
7519 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
7520 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
7521 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
7522 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7524 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7525 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
7526 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
7527 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7528 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
7529 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
7530 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
7533 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7534 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
7535 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
7536 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7537 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
7538 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
7539 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7541 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
7542 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
7543 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
7544 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
7545 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
7546 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7548 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7549 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
7550 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
7552 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
7553 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7554 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
7555 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
7556 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7559 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
7562 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
7563 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
7564 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
7565 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
7567 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
7568 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
7569 least January of 2020.
7571 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
7572 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
7573 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
7574 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
7577 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
7578 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
7579 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
7580 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
7581 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
7582 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
7583 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7585 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
7586 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7587 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7588 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7589 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7590 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7591 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7593 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
7594 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
7595 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
7597 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
7598 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
7599 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7601 o Minor features (geoip):
7602 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7605 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
7606 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
7607 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
7609 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
7610 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
7612 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
7613 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
7614 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
7616 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
7617 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
7618 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
7619 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7620 Patch by "junglefowl".
7623 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
7624 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
7625 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
7626 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
7627 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
7628 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
7630 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
7631 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
7632 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
7635 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7636 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
7637 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
7638 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
7640 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
7641 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
7642 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
7643 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
7644 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7646 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
7647 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
7648 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
7649 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
7650 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7652 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
7653 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
7654 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
7655 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
7656 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
7657 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
7658 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7660 o Minor feature (client):
7661 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
7662 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
7664 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
7665 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
7666 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
7667 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
7669 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
7670 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
7671 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
7672 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
7673 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
7675 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
7676 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
7677 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
7678 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
7679 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
7680 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
7681 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
7682 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
7683 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
7684 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
7686 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
7687 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
7688 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
7690 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
7691 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
7693 o Minor features (relay):
7694 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
7695 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
7696 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
7697 Written by Michael Sonntag.
7699 o Minor bugfix (logging):
7700 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
7701 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
7702 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
7703 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
7706 o Minor bugfixes (client):
7707 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
7708 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
7709 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7711 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
7712 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
7713 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
7715 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
7716 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7717 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
7718 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
7719 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7720 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
7721 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
7723 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
7724 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
7725 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
7726 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
7727 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
7728 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
7729 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
7732 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7733 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
7734 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7736 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
7737 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
7738 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
7739 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
7740 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7741 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
7742 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
7743 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
7745 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
7746 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
7747 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7749 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7750 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
7751 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
7752 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
7754 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
7755 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
7756 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
7757 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7759 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7760 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
7761 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
7762 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7763 Patch by "junglefowl".
7765 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
7766 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
7767 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
7771 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
7772 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
7773 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
7774 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
7775 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
7776 version should upgrade.
7778 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
7779 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
7780 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
7781 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
7782 the set of fallback directories, and more.
7784 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
7785 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
7786 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
7787 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
7788 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
7789 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
7792 o Major features (security):
7793 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
7794 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
7795 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
7796 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
7797 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
7798 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
7800 o Major features (directory authority, security):
7801 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
7802 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
7803 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
7805 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
7806 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
7807 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
7808 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
7809 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
7812 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
7813 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
7814 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
7815 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
7816 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
7817 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
7818 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
7819 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
7820 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
7821 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
7822 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7824 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
7825 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
7826 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7828 o Minor features (controller):
7829 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
7830 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
7832 o Minor features (entry guards):
7833 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
7834 break regression tests.
7835 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
7836 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
7838 o Minor features (fallback directories):
7839 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
7841 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
7842 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
7843 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
7844 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
7845 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
7846 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
7847 Closes ticket 20539.
7848 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
7850 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
7851 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
7852 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
7853 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
7854 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
7856 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
7857 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
7858 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
7859 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
7860 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
7861 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
7862 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
7863 Closes ticket 20822.
7864 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
7865 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
7867 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
7868 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7871 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
7872 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
7873 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
7874 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
7876 o Minor features (linting):
7877 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
7878 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
7880 o Minor features (logging):
7881 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
7882 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
7884 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
7885 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
7886 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
7887 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
7888 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
7889 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
7891 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
7892 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
7893 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
7894 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
7896 o Minor bugfixes (build):
7897 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
7898 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
7901 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
7902 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
7903 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
7904 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7906 o Minor bugfixes (config):
7907 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
7908 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
7909 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
7910 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7912 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7913 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
7914 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
7917 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
7918 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
7919 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
7920 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
7921 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7923 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7924 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
7925 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
7927 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
7928 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
7929 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7930 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
7931 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
7932 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
7933 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
7934 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
7935 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
7937 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
7938 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
7939 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
7940 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7942 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7943 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
7944 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
7945 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7946 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
7947 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7949 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7950 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
7951 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7952 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
7953 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
7954 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
7955 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
7956 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
7958 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7959 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
7960 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7962 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
7963 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
7964 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
7965 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
7967 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
7968 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7970 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7971 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
7972 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
7973 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
7974 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
7976 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7977 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
7978 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7980 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7981 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
7982 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
7983 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
7984 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7986 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7987 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
7988 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
7990 o Documentation (formatting):
7991 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
7992 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
7994 o Documentation (man page):
7995 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
7996 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
7999 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
8000 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
8001 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
8002 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
8003 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
8004 version should upgrade.
8006 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
8007 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
8009 o Major bugfixes (security):
8010 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
8011 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
8012 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
8013 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
8014 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
8015 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8017 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
8018 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
8019 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
8020 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
8021 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
8022 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
8023 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
8024 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
8025 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
8026 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
8027 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8029 o Minor features (geoip):
8030 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8033 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8034 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
8035 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
8036 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
8038 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
8039 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8042 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
8043 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
8044 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
8045 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
8046 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
8047 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
8048 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
8049 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
8051 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
8053 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
8054 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
8055 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
8056 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
8057 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
8060 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
8061 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
8062 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
8063 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
8064 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
8065 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
8066 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
8067 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
8070 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
8071 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
8072 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
8073 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
8074 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
8076 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
8077 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
8078 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
8079 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
8080 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
8081 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
8082 15056; part of proposal 220.
8083 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
8084 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
8085 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
8086 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
8087 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
8089 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
8090 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
8091 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
8092 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
8093 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8095 o Minor features (controller):
8096 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
8097 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
8100 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
8101 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
8102 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
8105 o Minor features (directory authority):
8106 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
8107 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
8108 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
8109 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
8110 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
8112 o Minor features (directory cache):
8113 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
8114 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
8117 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
8118 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
8119 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
8120 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
8122 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
8123 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
8124 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
8125 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
8127 o Minor features (infrastructure):
8128 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
8129 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
8131 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8132 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
8133 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
8134 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
8136 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8137 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
8138 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8139 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
8140 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
8141 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
8143 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
8144 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
8145 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
8146 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
8147 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
8149 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
8150 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
8151 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
8152 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
8153 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8155 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
8156 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
8157 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
8158 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
8159 on all recent tor versions.
8160 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
8161 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
8162 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
8163 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8165 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
8166 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
8167 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8169 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8170 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
8171 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
8172 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
8175 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
8176 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
8177 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
8180 o Minor bugfixes (util):
8181 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
8182 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
8183 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
8184 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
8186 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8187 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
8188 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
8189 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
8191 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8192 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
8193 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
8194 Closes ticket 19858.
8195 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
8196 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
8197 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
8198 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
8199 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
8200 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
8201 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
8202 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
8203 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
8204 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
8205 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
8206 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
8207 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
8208 redundant with the similar structures used in the
8209 channel abstraction.
8210 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
8211 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
8212 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
8213 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
8214 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
8215 replaced with code automatically generated by the
8219 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
8220 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8221 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
8222 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
8224 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
8225 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
8227 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
8228 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
8229 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
8230 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
8231 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
8235 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
8236 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
8237 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
8239 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
8240 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
8241 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
8244 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
8245 from "overcaffeinated".
8246 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
8247 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
8248 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
8249 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
8250 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
8254 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
8255 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
8256 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
8257 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
8258 become available for their systems.
8260 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
8263 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
8264 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
8266 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
8267 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8268 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8269 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8270 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8271 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8272 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8273 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8274 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8276 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
8277 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
8278 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
8279 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
8280 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
8282 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
8283 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8287 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
8288 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
8290 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
8291 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
8292 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
8293 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
8294 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
8295 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
8296 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
8297 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
8299 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
8301 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
8302 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
8303 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
8304 become available for their systems.
8306 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
8307 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8309 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
8310 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8311 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8312 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8313 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8314 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8315 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8316 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8317 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8319 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8320 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
8321 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
8322 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
8323 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
8326 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
8327 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
8328 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
8331 o Minor features (geoip):
8332 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8335 o Minor bugfix (build):
8336 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
8337 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
8338 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8340 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8341 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
8342 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
8343 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8345 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
8346 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
8347 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
8349 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8350 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
8351 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
8354 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8355 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
8356 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8357 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
8358 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
8359 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
8361 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8362 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
8363 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
8364 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8366 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8367 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
8368 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8370 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8371 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
8372 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
8373 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
8374 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
8375 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
8376 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8377 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
8378 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
8379 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8382 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
8383 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
8384 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
8385 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
8388 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8389 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
8390 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
8391 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
8392 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
8393 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
8396 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8397 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
8398 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
8401 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
8402 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
8403 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
8404 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
8406 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8407 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
8408 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
8409 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
8412 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8413 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
8414 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
8415 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
8418 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
8419 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
8420 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
8423 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8424 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
8425 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8427 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8428 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
8429 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8431 o Minor features (geoip):
8432 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8435 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
8436 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
8437 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
8438 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
8439 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
8441 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
8442 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
8443 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
8444 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
8445 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
8446 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8448 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
8449 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
8450 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8452 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8453 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
8454 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
8455 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
8456 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
8457 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
8459 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8460 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
8461 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
8463 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
8464 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
8466 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
8467 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
8468 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
8469 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
8470 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
8471 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
8473 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8474 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
8475 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
8479 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
8480 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
8483 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
8484 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
8485 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
8486 everyone to test this release.
8488 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
8489 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
8490 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
8491 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
8494 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
8495 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
8496 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
8497 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
8500 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
8501 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
8502 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
8503 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
8504 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8505 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
8506 download, stop waiting for certificates.
8507 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
8508 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
8509 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
8511 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
8512 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
8513 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
8514 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8515 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
8516 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8517 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
8518 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
8519 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8520 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
8521 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
8522 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
8524 o Minor features (geoip):
8525 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8528 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
8529 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
8530 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
8531 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
8532 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
8533 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8535 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
8536 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
8537 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
8538 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8539 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
8540 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8542 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8543 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
8544 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
8545 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
8548 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8549 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
8550 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
8551 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
8552 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
8553 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8554 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
8555 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8557 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
8558 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
8559 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8561 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8562 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
8563 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8564 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
8565 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8566 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
8567 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
8568 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8570 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
8571 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
8572 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
8575 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8576 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
8577 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8580 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
8581 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8582 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
8583 tickets 19287 and 19290.
8586 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
8587 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
8588 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
8589 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
8590 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
8593 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8594 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8595 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8596 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8597 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8598 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8599 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8600 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8601 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8603 o Minor features (geoip):
8604 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8608 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
8609 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
8610 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
8611 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
8612 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
8615 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
8616 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
8617 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
8618 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
8619 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
8620 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
8621 be a release candidate.
8623 o Major features (security fixes):
8624 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8625 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8626 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8627 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8628 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8629 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8630 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8631 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8633 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
8634 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
8635 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
8636 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
8637 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
8638 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
8639 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
8640 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
8641 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
8642 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
8643 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
8644 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
8645 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
8646 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
8649 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
8650 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
8651 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
8653 o Minor features (client, directory):
8654 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
8655 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
8656 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
8659 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
8660 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
8663 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
8664 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
8665 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
8668 o Minor features (geoip):
8669 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8672 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
8673 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
8674 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
8675 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
8676 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
8678 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
8679 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
8680 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
8681 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
8684 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
8685 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
8686 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
8687 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
8688 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
8690 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
8691 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
8692 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
8695 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
8696 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
8697 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
8698 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
8700 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8701 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
8702 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
8703 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
8705 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
8706 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
8707 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
8708 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
8711 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
8712 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
8713 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
8717 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
8718 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
8720 o Required libraries:
8721 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
8722 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
8723 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
8726 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
8727 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
8728 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
8729 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
8730 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
8731 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
8732 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
8733 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
8735 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
8736 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
8737 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
8738 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
8739 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
8740 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8742 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
8743 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
8744 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
8745 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
8746 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
8749 o Major features (circuit building, security):
8750 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
8751 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
8752 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
8754 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
8755 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
8757 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
8758 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
8759 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
8760 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
8761 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
8762 connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
8763 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
8764 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
8765 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
8766 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
8767 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
8769 o Major features (resource management):
8770 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
8771 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
8772 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
8773 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
8774 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
8775 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
8777 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
8778 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
8779 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
8780 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
8782 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
8783 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
8784 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
8785 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8787 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8788 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
8789 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
8790 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
8791 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
8792 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
8794 o Minor features (security, TLS):
8795 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
8796 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
8797 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
8798 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
8800 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
8801 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
8802 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
8803 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
8805 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
8806 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8809 o Minor feature (port flags):
8810 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
8811 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
8812 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
8813 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
8814 18693; patch by "teor".
8816 o Minor features (directory authority):
8817 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
8818 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
8819 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
8821 o Minor features (testing):
8822 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
8823 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
8824 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
8825 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
8827 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
8828 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
8829 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
8830 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
8831 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
8832 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
8833 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
8834 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
8835 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
8837 o Minor features (Tor2web):
8838 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
8839 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
8840 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
8842 o Minor features (unit tests):
8843 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
8844 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
8845 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
8846 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
8847 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
8848 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
8849 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
8850 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
8852 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
8853 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
8854 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
8855 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
8856 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
8857 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
8858 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
8859 assertion as a test failure.
8861 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
8862 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
8863 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
8864 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
8865 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
8866 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
8868 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
8869 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
8870 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
8871 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
8872 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
8873 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
8874 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
8875 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
8876 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
8877 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
8878 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8879 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
8880 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
8881 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
8882 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
8883 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8885 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8886 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
8887 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
8888 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
8889 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8890 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
8891 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
8894 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8895 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
8896 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
8897 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
8898 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
8899 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
8900 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
8903 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8904 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
8905 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
8906 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
8908 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
8909 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
8910 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
8912 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8913 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
8914 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
8915 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
8916 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
8917 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8919 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8920 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
8921 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
8922 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
8924 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
8925 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
8926 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
8928 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
8929 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
8930 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
8931 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
8932 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
8933 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
8935 o Minor bugfixes (options):
8936 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
8937 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
8939 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
8940 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
8941 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8944 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
8945 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
8946 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
8947 19678. Patch by teor.
8949 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8950 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
8951 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
8952 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
8953 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
8954 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
8956 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
8957 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
8961 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
8962 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
8963 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
8964 who select public relays as their bridges.
8966 o Major bugfixes (crash):
8967 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
8968 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
8969 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
8970 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
8971 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8973 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
8974 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
8975 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
8976 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
8977 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
8980 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
8981 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
8982 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
8983 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
8985 o Minor features (geoip):
8986 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8990 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
8991 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
8992 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
8993 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
8994 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
8995 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
8997 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
8998 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8999 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9001 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
9002 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
9003 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
9004 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
9005 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
9006 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9008 o Major features (user interface):
9009 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
9010 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
9011 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
9013 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
9014 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
9015 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
9016 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9018 o Minor features (config):
9019 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
9020 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
9022 o Minor features (geoip):
9023 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9026 o Minor features (user interface):
9027 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
9028 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
9031 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9032 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
9033 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
9035 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9036 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
9037 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
9039 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
9040 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
9041 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
9042 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9044 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
9045 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
9046 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
9049 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
9050 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
9051 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
9052 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
9054 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9055 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
9056 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9058 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9059 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
9060 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9062 o Deprecated features:
9063 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
9064 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
9065 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
9066 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
9067 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
9068 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
9069 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
9070 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
9071 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
9072 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
9073 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
9074 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
9075 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
9076 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
9077 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
9078 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
9079 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
9080 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
9081 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
9082 and TransListenAddress.
9085 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
9086 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
9089 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
9090 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
9093 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
9094 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
9095 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
9096 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
9097 encouraged to upgrade.
9099 o Directory authority changes:
9100 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9101 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9103 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
9104 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
9105 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
9106 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
9107 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
9108 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9110 o Minor features (geoip):
9111 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9114 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9115 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
9116 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
9119 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9120 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
9121 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
9122 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
9125 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
9126 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
9127 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
9128 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
9129 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
9130 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
9131 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
9132 security, correctness, and performance.
9134 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
9136 o New system requirements:
9137 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
9138 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
9139 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
9140 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
9141 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
9142 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
9143 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
9144 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
9146 o Major features (build, hardening):
9147 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
9148 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
9149 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
9150 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
9151 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
9152 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
9153 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
9154 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
9155 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
9157 o Major features (compilation):
9158 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
9159 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
9160 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
9161 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
9163 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
9164 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
9165 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
9167 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
9168 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
9169 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
9170 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
9171 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
9172 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
9173 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
9174 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
9176 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
9177 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
9178 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
9179 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
9180 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
9181 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
9182 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
9184 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
9185 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
9186 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
9187 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
9188 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
9189 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
9190 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
9192 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
9193 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
9194 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
9195 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
9196 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
9198 o Minor features (build, hardening):
9199 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
9200 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
9201 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
9202 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
9203 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
9204 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
9205 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
9206 Closes ticket 18895.
9208 o Minor features (code safety):
9209 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
9210 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
9213 o Minor features (controller):
9214 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
9215 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
9216 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
9217 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
9218 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
9219 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
9220 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
9221 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
9223 o Minor features (directory authority):
9224 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
9225 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
9226 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
9227 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
9228 Implements ticket 18624.
9229 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
9230 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
9231 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
9234 o Minor features (hidden service):
9235 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
9236 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
9237 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
9240 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
9241 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
9242 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
9243 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
9244 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
9245 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
9246 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
9247 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
9248 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
9249 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
9250 Closes ticket 18365.
9252 o Minor features (logging):
9253 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
9254 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
9255 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
9256 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
9257 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
9258 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
9259 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
9260 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
9261 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
9262 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
9264 o Minor features (performance):
9265 - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
9266 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
9267 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
9268 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
9269 from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
9270 first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
9271 startup. Closes ticket 18815.
9273 o Minor features (relay, usability):
9274 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
9275 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
9276 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
9277 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
9280 o Minor features (testing):
9281 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
9282 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9283 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
9284 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
9285 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
9286 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
9287 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
9288 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
9291 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
9292 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
9293 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
9294 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
9295 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9297 o Minor bugfixes (build):
9298 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
9299 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
9300 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
9301 patch from "cypherpunks".
9303 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
9304 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
9305 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9307 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9308 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
9309 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
9310 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9312 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9313 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
9314 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
9315 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9316 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
9317 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
9318 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
9319 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9321 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9322 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
9323 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
9324 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
9325 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
9326 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
9327 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
9329 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
9330 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
9331 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
9334 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
9335 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
9336 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
9338 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
9339 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
9340 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
9343 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
9344 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
9345 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
9346 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
9349 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9350 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
9351 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
9353 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9354 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
9355 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
9358 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9359 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
9360 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
9361 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
9362 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
9363 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
9364 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9365 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
9366 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
9369 o Minor bugfixes (time):
9370 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
9371 bugfix on all released tor versions.
9372 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
9373 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
9374 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
9375 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9377 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
9378 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
9379 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
9380 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
9381 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
9383 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
9384 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9386 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9387 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
9389 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
9390 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
9391 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
9392 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
9395 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
9396 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
9399 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
9400 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
9401 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
9402 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
9403 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
9404 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
9405 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
9408 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
9409 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
9410 command-line options to enable them.
9411 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
9412 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
9415 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
9417 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
9419 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
9420 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
9421 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
9422 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
9423 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
9424 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9426 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
9428 o Minor features (geoip):
9429 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9432 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9433 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
9434 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9436 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9437 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
9438 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9439 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
9441 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9442 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
9443 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
9444 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
9445 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9446 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
9447 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
9448 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9451 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
9452 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
9453 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
9454 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
9455 against previous versions.
9457 o Directory authority changes:
9458 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9460 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
9461 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
9462 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
9463 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
9465 o Minor features (build):
9466 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
9467 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
9468 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
9469 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9470 Patch from intrigeri.
9472 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
9473 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
9474 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
9477 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
9478 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
9479 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
9480 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
9481 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
9484 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9485 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
9486 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
9487 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
9488 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
9489 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
9490 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
9492 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
9493 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
9494 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
9495 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
9497 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
9498 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
9499 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
9500 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
9501 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
9502 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9504 o Fallback directory list:
9505 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
9506 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
9507 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
9508 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
9509 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
9510 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
9511 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
9512 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
9513 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
9516 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
9517 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
9518 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
9519 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
9522 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
9523 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
9524 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
9525 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9527 o Minor features (build):
9528 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
9529 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
9531 o Minor features (geoip):
9532 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9535 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9536 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
9537 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9539 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
9540 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
9541 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
9542 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
9546 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
9547 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
9548 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
9549 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
9550 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
9553 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
9554 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
9555 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
9556 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
9557 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9559 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
9560 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
9561 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
9562 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
9563 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
9564 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
9566 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
9567 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
9568 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
9569 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9571 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
9572 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
9573 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
9574 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
9575 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
9576 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
9577 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
9579 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
9580 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
9582 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
9583 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
9584 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
9586 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
9587 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
9588 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
9589 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
9590 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
9591 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9594 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
9595 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
9596 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
9599 o Major bugfixes (key management):
9600 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
9601 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
9602 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
9603 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
9604 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9605 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
9608 o Major bugfixes (testing):
9609 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
9610 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
9611 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
9612 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9614 o Minor features (clients):
9615 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
9616 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
9617 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
9619 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9620 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
9621 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
9622 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
9623 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
9624 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
9625 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
9626 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
9627 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
9628 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
9630 o Minor features (geoip):
9631 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9634 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
9635 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
9636 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
9639 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
9640 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
9641 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
9643 o Minor bugfixes (build):
9644 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
9645 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
9647 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
9648 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
9650 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
9651 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
9654 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9655 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
9656 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
9657 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
9658 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9659 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
9660 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
9661 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9663 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
9664 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
9665 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
9666 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
9667 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9669 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
9670 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
9671 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
9672 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9673 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
9674 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
9677 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
9678 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
9679 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
9680 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
9681 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
9682 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9684 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9685 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
9686 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
9687 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9688 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
9689 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9690 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
9691 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9693 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
9694 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
9695 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
9696 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
9698 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
9699 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
9700 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
9701 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
9702 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
9703 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
9706 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
9707 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
9708 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
9710 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
9711 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
9712 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
9714 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
9715 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
9716 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
9718 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9719 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
9720 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
9721 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
9722 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
9723 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
9724 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9726 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
9727 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
9728 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
9729 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9732 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
9733 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
9734 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
9735 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
9738 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
9739 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
9740 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
9741 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
9742 directory support should also be much improved.
9744 o New system requirements:
9745 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
9746 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
9747 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
9748 longer runs with, these versions.
9749 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
9750 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
9751 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
9753 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
9754 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
9755 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
9756 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
9757 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
9759 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
9760 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9761 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9762 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9763 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9765 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
9766 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
9767 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
9768 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
9769 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
9771 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
9772 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
9773 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
9774 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9776 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
9777 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
9778 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9779 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
9780 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9782 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
9783 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
9784 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
9785 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
9786 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
9787 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9790 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
9791 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9792 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9794 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
9795 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
9796 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
9797 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
9800 o Major bugfixes (voting):
9801 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
9802 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
9803 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
9804 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
9806 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
9807 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
9808 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
9809 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9810 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
9811 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
9812 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
9813 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
9814 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
9815 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9817 o Minor features (security, win32):
9818 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
9819 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
9822 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
9823 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9824 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9825 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9827 o Minor features (build):
9828 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
9829 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
9832 o Minor features (code hardening):
9833 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
9834 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
9835 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
9838 o Minor features (crypto):
9839 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
9840 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
9843 o Minor features (geoip):
9844 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9847 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
9848 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
9849 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
9850 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
9851 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
9853 o Minor features (IPv6):
9854 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
9855 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
9856 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
9857 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
9858 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
9859 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
9860 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
9862 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9863 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
9864 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
9865 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
9868 o Minor features (robustness):
9869 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
9870 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
9871 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
9873 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
9874 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
9875 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
9876 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
9877 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
9878 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
9879 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
9882 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
9883 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
9884 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
9885 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
9886 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
9888 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
9889 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
9890 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
9891 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
9893 o Minor bugfixes (build):
9894 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
9895 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
9897 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
9898 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
9899 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9900 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
9901 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
9902 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
9904 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
9905 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
9906 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
9907 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
9908 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9910 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9911 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
9912 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
9913 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
9916 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9917 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
9918 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9920 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
9921 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
9922 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
9923 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
9925 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9926 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
9927 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
9928 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
9929 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
9930 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9932 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
9933 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
9934 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
9935 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
9937 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
9938 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
9939 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
9940 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
9941 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
9943 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
9944 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
9945 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
9946 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
9947 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
9948 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
9949 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
9950 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
9951 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
9954 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
9955 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
9956 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
9957 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9959 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
9960 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
9961 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
9963 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9964 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
9965 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
9966 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9967 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
9968 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
9969 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9970 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
9971 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9973 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9974 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
9975 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
9976 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9977 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
9978 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
9979 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
9980 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
9981 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
9982 Christian, patch by teor.
9984 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
9985 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
9986 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
9987 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
9989 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
9990 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
9991 patch by "cypherpunks".
9992 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
9994 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
9995 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9997 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
9998 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
9999 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
10000 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
10002 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
10003 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
10004 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
10007 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10008 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
10009 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
10010 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
10011 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
10012 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10014 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
10015 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
10016 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
10017 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
10019 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
10020 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
10021 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
10022 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
10024 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10025 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
10026 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
10027 17744. Patch from zerosion.
10028 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
10029 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
10030 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
10031 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
10032 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
10035 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
10036 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
10037 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
10039 o Removed features:
10040 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
10041 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
10042 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
10045 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
10047 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
10048 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
10051 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
10052 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
10053 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
10054 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
10055 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
10057 o Major features (security, Linux):
10058 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
10059 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
10060 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
10061 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
10062 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
10064 o Major features (directory system):
10065 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
10066 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
10067 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
10068 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
10069 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
10070 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
10071 "mikeperry" and "teor".
10072 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
10073 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
10074 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
10075 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
10076 15775. Patch by "teor".
10077 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
10078 "gsathya", and "karsten".
10079 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
10080 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
10081 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
10082 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
10083 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
10086 o Major key updates:
10087 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
10088 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
10091 o Minor features (security, clock):
10092 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
10093 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
10094 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
10095 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
10097 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
10098 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
10099 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
10100 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
10101 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
10102 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10104 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
10105 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
10106 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
10107 Implements ticket 17026.
10108 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
10109 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
10110 Implements feature 17986.
10111 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
10112 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
10113 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
10114 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
10115 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
10116 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
10119 o Minor features (security, RNG):
10120 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
10121 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
10122 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
10123 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
10124 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
10125 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
10126 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
10127 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
10128 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
10129 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
10132 o Minor features (accounting):
10133 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
10134 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
10135 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
10136 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
10138 o Minor features (build):
10139 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
10140 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
10141 patch from "cypherpunks."
10142 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
10143 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
10144 17549, 17921, and 17984.
10146 o Minor features (controller):
10147 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
10148 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
10149 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
10150 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
10151 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
10152 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
10153 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
10154 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
10157 o Minor features (crypto):
10158 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
10160 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
10161 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
10162 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
10163 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
10164 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
10165 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
10166 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
10167 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
10169 o Minor features (directory downloads):
10170 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
10171 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
10172 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
10173 17864; patch by "teor".
10174 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
10175 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
10176 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
10178 o Minor features (geoip):
10179 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10182 o Minor features (IPv6):
10183 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
10184 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
10185 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
10186 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
10187 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
10188 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
10189 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
10190 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
10191 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
10192 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
10193 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
10195 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
10196 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10197 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
10198 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
10200 o Minor features (logging):
10201 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
10202 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
10203 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
10204 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
10207 o Minor features (portability):
10208 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
10209 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
10211 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
10212 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
10213 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
10214 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
10215 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
10217 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
10218 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
10219 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
10220 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
10221 Resolves ticket 17951.
10223 o Minor features (replay cache):
10224 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
10225 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
10227 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
10228 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
10229 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
10230 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
10231 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
10232 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
10233 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
10234 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
10235 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
10236 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
10237 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
10238 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
10239 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
10240 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
10242 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
10243 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
10244 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
10245 from "unixninja92".
10247 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10248 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
10249 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
10250 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10251 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
10252 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
10254 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
10257 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10258 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
10259 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
10260 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10261 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
10262 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
10263 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10264 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
10266 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
10267 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
10268 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
10269 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
10270 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
10271 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
10272 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10273 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
10275 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
10276 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
10278 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
10279 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
10280 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10282 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10283 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
10284 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
10285 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10287 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
10288 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
10289 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10291 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10292 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
10293 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10295 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10296 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
10297 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
10298 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
10299 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
10301 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
10302 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10304 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10305 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
10306 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
10309 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10310 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
10311 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
10312 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
10313 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
10314 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
10316 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
10317 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
10318 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
10319 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
10320 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
10322 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
10323 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
10324 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
10327 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
10328 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
10329 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
10330 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10331 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
10332 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
10333 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
10334 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
10337 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10338 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
10339 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
10340 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
10341 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
10342 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10343 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
10344 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
10345 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
10346 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
10348 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
10349 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10351 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10352 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
10353 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
10354 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
10355 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
10356 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
10357 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
10358 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
10359 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
10360 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
10362 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
10363 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
10364 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
10365 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
10367 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
10368 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
10369 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
10370 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
10371 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
10373 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
10374 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
10377 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
10378 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
10379 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
10380 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
10381 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
10382 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
10383 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
10386 o Removed features:
10387 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
10388 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
10389 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
10390 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
10391 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
10394 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
10395 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
10396 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
10397 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
10398 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
10399 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
10400 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
10401 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
10402 portion of ticket 16831.
10403 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
10404 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
10405 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
10407 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
10408 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
10411 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
10412 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
10413 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
10415 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
10416 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
10417 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
10418 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
10419 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
10420 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
10423 o Minor features (geoip):
10424 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10427 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10428 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
10429 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
10430 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
10431 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
10432 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
10434 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10435 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
10436 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
10437 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
10438 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
10439 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
10440 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
10441 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10442 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
10443 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10446 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
10447 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
10448 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
10449 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
10450 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
10451 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
10452 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
10453 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
10454 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
10455 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
10456 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
10457 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
10458 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
10459 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
10460 that would make him proud.
10462 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
10464 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
10465 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
10466 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
10467 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
10468 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
10469 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
10470 of Tor invoke which others.
10472 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
10475 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
10476 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
10477 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
10478 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
10479 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
10480 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
10481 release will the the official stable release.
10483 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
10484 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
10485 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
10486 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
10487 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
10490 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
10491 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
10492 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10494 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
10495 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
10496 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10497 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
10498 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10499 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
10500 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
10502 o Minor features (geoIP):
10503 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10506 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10507 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
10508 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
10509 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
10510 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10511 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
10512 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
10514 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10515 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
10516 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
10519 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
10520 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
10521 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
10522 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
10524 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10525 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
10526 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
10527 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
10528 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
10529 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
10530 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
10531 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
10532 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
10533 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
10534 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
10538 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
10539 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
10543 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
10544 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
10545 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
10546 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
10547 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
10549 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
10550 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
10551 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
10552 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
10554 o Major features (security, hidden services):
10555 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
10556 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
10557 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
10558 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
10559 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
10560 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
10561 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
10563 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
10564 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
10565 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
10566 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
10567 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
10568 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
10571 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
10572 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
10573 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
10574 available. Implements ticket 16535.
10575 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
10576 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
10579 o Major features (performance testing):
10580 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
10581 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
10582 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
10584 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
10585 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
10586 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
10587 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
10589 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
10590 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
10591 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
10592 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
10593 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
10594 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
10596 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
10597 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
10599 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
10600 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
10601 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
10602 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
10603 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
10605 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
10606 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
10607 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
10608 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
10609 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
10610 own. Implements feature 15482.
10611 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
10612 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
10614 o Minor features (compilation):
10615 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
10616 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
10617 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
10618 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
10619 which started requiring ECC.
10621 o Minor features (geoip):
10622 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10625 o Minor features (hidden services):
10626 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
10627 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
10628 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
10629 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
10630 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
10631 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
10632 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
10633 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
10635 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
10636 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
10637 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
10640 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
10641 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
10642 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
10643 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
10645 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
10646 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
10647 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
10648 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
10649 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
10651 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
10652 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
10653 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
10654 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
10655 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10656 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
10657 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
10658 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
10659 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
10660 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
10661 Related to ticket 16069.
10662 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
10663 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
10664 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
10665 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
10666 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
10667 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10669 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
10670 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
10671 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10672 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
10673 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
10675 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
10676 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
10677 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10679 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
10680 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
10681 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
10682 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10684 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10685 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
10686 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
10687 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
10688 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10690 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10691 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
10692 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
10693 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
10694 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
10695 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
10696 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
10697 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
10698 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
10699 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
10700 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
10703 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
10704 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
10705 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10707 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10708 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
10709 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10710 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
10711 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10713 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
10714 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
10715 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
10716 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
10718 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10719 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
10720 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
10722 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
10723 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10724 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
10725 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
10726 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
10727 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10728 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
10729 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10731 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10732 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
10733 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
10734 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
10735 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
10737 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
10738 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
10741 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10742 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
10743 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
10744 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
10745 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
10746 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
10747 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
10748 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
10749 function. Closes ticket 16763.
10750 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
10751 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
10752 suite of other microdesc functions.
10753 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
10754 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
10755 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
10756 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
10757 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
10758 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
10759 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
10760 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
10761 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
10762 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
10764 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
10765 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
10767 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
10770 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
10771 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
10772 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
10773 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
10777 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
10778 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
10779 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
10780 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
10781 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
10782 Closes ticket 13338.
10783 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
10784 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
10785 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
10786 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
10787 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
10788 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
10791 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
10792 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
10793 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
10794 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
10795 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
10796 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
10797 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
10799 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
10800 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
10801 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
10802 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
10803 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
10804 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
10805 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
10806 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
10807 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
10808 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
10809 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
10810 network before we begin.
10811 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
10812 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
10813 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
10814 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
10815 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
10816 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
10817 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
10818 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
10821 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
10822 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
10823 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
10824 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
10825 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
10826 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
10828 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
10829 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
10830 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
10832 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
10833 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
10834 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
10835 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
10836 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
10837 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
10838 Implements part of ticket 12498.
10839 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
10840 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
10841 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
10842 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
10843 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
10844 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
10845 part of ticket 12498.
10846 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
10847 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
10848 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
10849 key). Closes ticket 13642.
10851 o Major features (Hidden services):
10852 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
10853 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
10854 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
10855 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
10856 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
10858 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
10859 introduction points, which used to change the number of
10860 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
10861 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
10863 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
10864 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
10865 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
10866 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
10867 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
10868 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
10870 o Major features (performance):
10871 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
10872 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
10873 Implements ticket 16467.
10874 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
10875 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
10876 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
10877 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
10879 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
10880 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
10881 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
10882 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
10883 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
10884 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
10886 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
10887 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
10888 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
10889 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
10890 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
10891 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
10892 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
10893 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
10896 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10897 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
10898 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
10899 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
10900 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
10901 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
10902 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
10905 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
10906 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
10907 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
10908 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
10909 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
10910 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
10912 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
10913 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
10914 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
10915 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
10916 by "cypherpunks_backup".
10917 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
10918 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
10919 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
10922 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
10923 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
10924 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
10925 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
10926 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
10927 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
10928 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
10930 o Minor features (client):
10931 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
10932 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
10933 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
10935 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
10936 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
10937 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
10938 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10939 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
10940 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
10941 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
10944 o Minor features (control protocol):
10945 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
10946 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
10948 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10949 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
10950 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
10951 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
10952 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
10953 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
10955 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
10956 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10957 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10959 o Minor features (hidden services):
10960 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
10961 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
10962 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
10963 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
10966 o Minor features (portability):
10967 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
10968 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
10969 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
10971 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
10972 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
10973 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
10974 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
10976 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10977 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
10978 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
10979 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10981 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
10982 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
10983 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
10984 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
10985 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
10986 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
10988 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10989 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
10990 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
10991 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10992 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
10993 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
10994 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10996 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10997 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
10998 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11000 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
11001 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
11002 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
11003 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
11005 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
11006 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
11007 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
11008 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
11010 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
11011 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
11014 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11015 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
11016 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
11017 from "cypherpunks".
11019 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
11020 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
11021 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11022 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
11023 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
11024 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11026 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
11027 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
11028 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11030 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
11031 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
11032 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
11034 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
11035 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
11036 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11037 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
11038 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11039 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
11040 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
11041 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
11042 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11044 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11045 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
11046 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
11047 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
11048 haven't supported that in ages.
11049 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
11050 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
11051 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
11052 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
11055 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
11056 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
11057 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
11058 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
11059 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
11060 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
11062 o Removed features:
11063 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
11064 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
11065 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
11066 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
11067 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
11068 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
11069 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
11070 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
11071 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
11072 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
11073 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
11074 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
11075 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
11076 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
11077 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
11078 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
11079 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
11082 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
11083 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
11084 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
11085 Closes ticket 15817.
11086 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
11087 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
11089 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
11090 default as a part of "make check".
11091 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
11092 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
11093 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
11094 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
11098 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
11099 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
11100 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
11101 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
11102 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
11103 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
11105 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
11106 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
11107 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
11108 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
11109 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
11110 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
11111 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
11112 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
11115 o Major bugfixes (stability):
11116 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
11117 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
11118 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
11119 by "cypherpunks_backup".
11120 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
11121 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
11122 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
11125 o Minor features (geoip):
11126 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11127 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11129 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
11130 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
11131 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
11132 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
11133 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
11134 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
11136 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11137 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
11138 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
11139 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
11142 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
11143 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
11144 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
11145 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
11146 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
11148 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
11149 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
11150 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
11151 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
11152 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
11155 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
11156 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
11157 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
11158 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
11159 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
11160 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
11161 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
11163 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11164 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
11165 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
11166 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
11168 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11169 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
11170 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
11171 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
11172 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
11173 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
11176 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
11177 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
11178 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
11181 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
11182 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
11183 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
11184 authorities should upgrade.
11186 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
11187 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
11188 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
11189 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
11192 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
11193 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
11194 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
11197 o Minor features (geoip):
11198 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11199 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11203 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
11204 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
11205 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
11206 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
11207 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
11208 the hidden services subsystem.
11210 o New system requirements:
11211 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
11212 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
11215 o Major features (controller):
11216 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
11217 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
11219 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
11220 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
11221 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
11222 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
11223 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
11224 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
11225 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
11227 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11228 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
11229 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
11230 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
11233 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
11234 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
11235 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
11236 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
11237 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
11239 o Minor features (command-line interface):
11240 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
11241 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11242 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
11243 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
11245 o Minor features (controller):
11246 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
11247 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
11248 present. Implements ticket 14840.
11249 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
11250 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
11251 Closes ticket 14845.
11252 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
11253 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
11254 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
11256 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
11257 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
11258 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
11259 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
11261 o Minor features (geoip):
11262 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11263 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11266 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
11267 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
11268 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
11269 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
11270 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
11271 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
11272 Closes ticket 15745.
11274 o Minor features (logging):
11275 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
11276 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
11279 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
11280 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
11281 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
11282 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
11284 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
11285 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
11286 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
11287 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
11288 Resolves ticket 15435.
11290 o Minor features (testing):
11291 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
11292 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
11293 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
11294 files. Closes ticket 15180.
11295 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
11296 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
11297 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
11298 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
11299 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
11300 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
11301 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
11302 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
11303 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
11304 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
11305 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
11306 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
11308 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11309 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
11310 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
11313 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
11314 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
11315 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
11317 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
11318 stderr, not stdout.
11320 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
11321 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
11322 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
11323 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
11324 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
11325 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
11326 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
11327 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11329 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11330 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
11331 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
11333 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
11334 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
11335 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
11338 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
11339 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
11340 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
11342 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
11343 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11345 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
11346 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
11347 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
11348 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
11351 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
11352 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
11353 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
11354 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
11355 recent enough Clang.
11357 o Minor bugfixes (network):
11358 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
11359 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
11360 unsuitable for public communications.
11362 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
11363 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
11364 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
11365 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
11366 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
11367 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
11369 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
11370 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
11371 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
11372 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
11373 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
11374 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
11375 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
11376 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
11378 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11379 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
11380 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
11382 - Set the severity correctly when testing
11383 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
11384 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
11385 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
11386 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
11388 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11389 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
11390 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
11392 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
11393 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
11394 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
11395 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
11396 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
11399 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
11400 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
11402 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
11403 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11404 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
11405 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
11406 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
11409 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
11410 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
11411 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
11412 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
11413 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
11414 Closes ticket 14922.
11416 o Removed features:
11417 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
11418 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
11419 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
11420 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
11421 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
11422 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
11423 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
11424 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
11425 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
11426 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
11427 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
11430 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
11431 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
11432 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
11433 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
11434 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
11436 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
11437 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
11439 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
11440 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
11441 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
11442 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
11443 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
11444 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
11445 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
11447 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
11448 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
11449 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
11450 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
11451 Resolves ticket 15515.
11454 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
11455 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
11456 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
11457 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
11458 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
11460 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
11461 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
11463 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
11464 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
11465 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
11466 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
11467 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
11468 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
11469 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
11471 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
11472 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
11473 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
11474 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
11475 Resolves ticket 15515.
11478 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
11479 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
11480 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
11481 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
11482 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
11484 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
11485 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
11487 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
11488 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
11489 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
11490 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
11491 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
11492 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
11493 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
11495 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
11496 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
11497 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
11498 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
11499 Resolves ticket 15515.
11500 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
11501 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
11502 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
11506 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
11507 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
11509 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
11510 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
11511 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
11512 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
11513 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
11514 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
11515 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
11516 bugs should be addressed.
11518 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11519 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
11520 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
11521 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
11523 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
11524 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
11525 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
11527 o Major bugfixes (client):
11528 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
11529 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
11532 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
11533 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
11534 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
11535 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
11536 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
11537 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11539 o Major bugfixes (portability):
11540 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
11541 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
11544 o Minor features (heartbeat):
11545 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
11546 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
11547 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
11548 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
11550 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11551 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
11552 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
11555 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
11556 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
11558 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
11559 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
11560 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
11562 o Directory authority changes:
11563 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
11564 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
11565 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
11566 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
11567 closes ticket 14487.
11569 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
11570 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
11571 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
11574 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
11575 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
11576 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
11577 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
11578 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
11579 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
11580 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
11581 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11583 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
11584 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
11585 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
11586 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
11588 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11589 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
11590 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
11591 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
11593 o Minor features (controller):
11594 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
11595 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
11596 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
11598 o Minor features (geoip):
11599 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11600 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11603 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
11604 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
11605 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
11606 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11607 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
11608 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11610 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11611 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
11612 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
11613 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
11615 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11616 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
11617 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
11618 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
11619 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
11620 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
11621 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
11622 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11624 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
11625 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
11626 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11628 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
11629 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
11630 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
11631 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
11632 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
11636 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
11637 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
11638 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
11641 o Directory authority changes:
11642 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
11643 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
11644 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
11645 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
11646 closes ticket 14487.
11648 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
11649 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
11650 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
11651 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
11653 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
11654 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
11655 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
11656 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
11657 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
11658 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
11659 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
11660 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11662 o Minor features (geoip):
11663 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11664 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11667 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
11668 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
11669 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
11670 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
11671 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
11673 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
11674 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
11675 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
11678 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
11679 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
11680 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
11681 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
11682 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11683 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
11684 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
11685 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11687 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
11688 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
11689 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
11692 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11693 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
11694 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
11696 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
11697 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11698 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
11699 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
11700 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
11702 o Minor features (controller):
11703 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
11704 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
11705 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
11707 o Minor features (geoip):
11708 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11709 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11712 o Minor features (logs):
11713 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
11716 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
11717 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
11718 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
11719 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11720 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
11721 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
11722 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
11723 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
11724 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
11726 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11727 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
11729 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
11732 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11733 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
11734 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
11736 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
11737 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
11738 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
11739 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
11740 from "cypherpunks".
11741 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
11742 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
11745 o Directory authority IP change:
11746 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
11747 closes ticket 14487.
11750 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
11751 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
11752 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
11756 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
11757 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
11758 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
11759 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
11760 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
11761 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
11763 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
11764 the next version will be a release candidate.
11766 o Deprecated versions:
11767 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
11768 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
11770 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
11771 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
11772 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
11773 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
11774 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
11775 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
11777 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
11778 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
11779 Implements ticket 11485.
11781 o Major features (changed defaults):
11782 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
11783 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
11784 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
11785 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
11786 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
11787 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
11789 o Major features (directory system):
11790 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
11791 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
11792 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
11793 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
11794 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
11795 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
11796 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
11797 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
11798 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
11799 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
11800 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
11801 227. Closes ticket 10395.
11803 o Major features (guards):
11804 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
11805 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
11806 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
11807 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
11808 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
11810 o Major features (performance):
11811 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
11812 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
11813 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
11814 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
11815 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
11816 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
11817 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
11818 Implements ticket 9682.
11820 o Major features (relay):
11821 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
11822 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
11823 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
11825 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
11826 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
11827 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
11828 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
11830 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
11831 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
11832 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
11833 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
11834 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
11835 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
11836 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
11838 o Minor features (build):
11839 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
11840 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
11841 Resolves ticket 13037.
11843 o Minor features (controller):
11844 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
11845 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
11847 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
11848 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
11849 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
11850 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
11851 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
11852 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
11854 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
11855 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
11856 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
11857 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
11858 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
11859 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
11860 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
11861 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
11862 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
11863 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
11865 o Minor features (geoip):
11866 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
11867 GeoLite2 Country database.
11869 o Minor features (guard nodes):
11870 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
11871 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
11872 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
11874 o Minor features (hidden service):
11875 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
11876 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
11877 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
11878 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
11879 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
11880 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
11881 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
11882 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
11884 o Minor features (interface):
11885 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
11886 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
11887 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
11889 o Minor features (logging):
11890 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
11891 Resolves ticket 6852.
11892 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
11893 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
11894 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
11896 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
11897 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
11899 o Minor features (stability):
11900 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
11901 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
11904 o Minor features (systemd):
11905 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
11906 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
11908 o Minor features (testing networks):
11909 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
11910 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
11911 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
11912 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
11913 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
11914 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
11916 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
11917 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
11918 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
11919 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
11920 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
11922 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
11923 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
11924 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
11925 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
11926 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
11928 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
11929 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
11930 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
11931 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
11932 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
11933 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
11934 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
11935 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11937 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
11938 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
11939 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
11940 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11941 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
11942 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11943 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
11944 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
11946 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
11947 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
11948 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
11951 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
11952 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
11953 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
11954 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
11955 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
11957 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
11958 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
11959 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
11960 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
11961 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11963 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11964 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
11965 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
11966 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
11967 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
11968 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
11969 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
11970 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
11971 Addresses ticket 14188.
11972 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
11973 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
11974 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
11975 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
11976 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
11977 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
11978 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
11979 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
11980 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11982 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11983 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
11984 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
11985 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11986 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
11987 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
11988 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
11989 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11991 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11992 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
11993 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
11994 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
11995 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
11996 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
11997 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
11998 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11999 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
12000 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12001 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
12002 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
12003 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12005 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
12006 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
12007 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
12008 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
12009 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
12010 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
12011 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
12012 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
12013 state, and key files.
12014 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
12015 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
12018 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12019 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
12020 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
12021 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
12022 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12023 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
12024 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
12025 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12026 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
12027 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
12028 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12030 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12031 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
12032 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12033 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
12035 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
12036 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12038 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
12039 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
12040 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
12041 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
12042 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
12043 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12045 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
12046 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
12047 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
12048 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12049 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
12050 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
12051 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12052 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
12053 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
12054 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12056 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12057 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
12058 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
12060 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
12061 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
12063 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
12064 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
12065 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
12066 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
12067 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12069 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
12070 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
12071 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
12072 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
12075 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
12076 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
12077 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
12080 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12081 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
12082 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12084 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
12085 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
12086 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
12087 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
12088 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
12089 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
12090 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
12092 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
12093 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
12096 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
12097 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
12098 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
12100 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
12101 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
12102 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
12105 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12106 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
12107 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
12108 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
12109 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
12110 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
12111 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
12112 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
12113 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
12115 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
12116 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
12118 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
12122 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
12123 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
12124 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
12125 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
12126 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
12127 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
12129 o Downgraded warnings:
12130 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
12131 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
12133 o Removed features:
12134 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
12135 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
12136 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
12137 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
12138 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
12142 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
12143 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12144 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
12145 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
12146 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
12147 (existing behavior).
12148 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
12149 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
12150 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
12151 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
12152 Closes ticket 14107.
12153 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
12154 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
12155 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
12156 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
12158 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
12159 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
12160 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12163 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
12164 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
12165 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
12166 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
12167 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
12168 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
12170 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
12171 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
12172 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
12173 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
12175 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
12176 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
12177 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
12178 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
12179 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
12180 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
12182 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
12183 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
12184 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
12185 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
12186 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
12187 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
12188 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
12191 o Major features (hidden services):
12192 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
12193 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
12194 Closes ticket 13667.
12195 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
12196 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
12197 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
12198 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
12199 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
12200 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
12201 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
12202 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
12203 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
12204 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
12205 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
12207 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
12208 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
12209 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
12210 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
12211 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
12212 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
12215 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12216 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
12217 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
12218 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
12219 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
12220 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
12222 o Directory authority changes:
12223 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
12224 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
12225 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
12227 o Major removed features:
12228 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
12229 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
12230 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
12231 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
12233 o Minor features (client):
12234 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
12235 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
12236 Resolves ticket 13315.
12238 o Minor features (controller):
12239 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
12240 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
12243 o Minor features (geoip):
12244 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12247 o Minor features (hidden services):
12248 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
12249 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
12250 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
12251 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
12252 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
12253 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
12255 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
12256 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
12257 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
12259 o Minor features (systemd):
12260 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
12261 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
12262 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
12263 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
12265 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
12266 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
12267 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
12268 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
12269 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
12272 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
12273 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
12274 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
12275 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
12276 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
12278 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
12279 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
12280 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
12283 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
12284 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
12285 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
12286 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
12287 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
12289 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
12290 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
12291 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12293 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12294 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
12295 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
12296 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
12297 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
12299 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
12300 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
12303 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12304 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
12305 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
12306 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
12307 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
12308 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
12309 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
12310 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
12311 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12312 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
12313 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
12314 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
12315 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
12316 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
12319 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12320 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
12321 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
12322 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
12323 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
12324 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
12326 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12327 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
12328 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
12329 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
12331 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
12332 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12334 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12335 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
12336 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
12337 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
12340 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
12341 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
12342 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
12343 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
12344 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
12345 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
12347 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
12348 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
12349 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
12350 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
12351 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12352 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
12353 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
12354 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
12355 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
12356 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
12357 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
12358 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
12359 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
12360 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
12361 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
12362 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
12363 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
12364 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
12365 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
12366 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12367 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
12368 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
12369 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
12370 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
12371 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
12372 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
12373 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
12374 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12375 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
12376 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
12377 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
12378 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
12380 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
12381 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
12382 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
12383 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
12384 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12386 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12387 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
12388 with a function instead.
12389 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
12390 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
12391 Closes ticket 13172.
12392 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
12393 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
12394 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
12395 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
12396 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
12397 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
12398 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
12399 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
12400 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
12401 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
12402 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
12403 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
12407 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
12408 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
12409 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
12410 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
12411 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
12412 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
12413 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
12414 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
12415 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
12416 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
12417 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
12418 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
12421 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
12422 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
12423 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
12424 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
12425 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
12426 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
12428 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
12432 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
12433 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
12434 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
12435 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
12436 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
12437 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
12438 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
12439 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
12440 of introducing infinite download loops.
12442 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
12443 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
12444 with 0.2.5.x for now.
12446 o New compiler and system requirements:
12447 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
12448 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
12449 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
12450 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
12452 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
12453 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
12454 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
12455 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
12456 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
12457 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
12458 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
12459 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
12460 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
12462 o Removed platform support:
12463 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
12464 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
12465 Closes ticket 11446.
12467 o Major features (bridges):
12468 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
12469 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
12470 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
12473 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
12474 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
12475 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
12476 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
12479 o Major features (directory system):
12480 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
12481 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
12482 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
12483 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
12485 o Major features (sample torrc):
12486 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
12487 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
12488 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
12489 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
12490 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
12491 generally useful "sample torrc".
12493 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
12494 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
12495 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12497 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
12498 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
12499 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
12500 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
12501 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
12503 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
12504 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
12505 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
12506 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
12508 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
12509 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
12510 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
12511 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
12512 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
12513 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
12516 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
12517 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
12518 document. Implements feature 10427.
12520 o Minor features (client):
12521 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
12522 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
12523 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
12524 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
12526 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12527 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
12528 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
12529 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
12530 argument more than once.
12531 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
12532 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
12533 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
12534 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
12535 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
12536 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
12538 o Minor features (logging):
12539 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
12540 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
12541 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
12542 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
12543 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
12544 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
12545 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
12546 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
12547 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
12549 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
12550 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
12551 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
12552 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
12554 o Minor features (relay):
12555 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
12556 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
12557 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
12559 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
12560 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
12561 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
12562 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
12564 o Minor features (testing networks):
12565 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
12566 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
12567 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
12568 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
12569 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
12572 o Minor features (validation):
12573 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
12574 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
12575 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
12576 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
12577 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
12578 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
12579 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
12580 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
12582 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
12583 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
12584 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
12585 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12587 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
12588 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
12589 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
12590 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12592 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12593 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
12594 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
12596 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
12597 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
12598 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
12600 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
12601 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12602 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
12603 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
12604 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
12605 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
12606 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
12608 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12609 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
12610 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
12611 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
12612 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
12613 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12614 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
12615 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
12616 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
12618 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
12619 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
12620 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
12621 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
12622 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
12624 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
12625 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
12626 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
12628 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12629 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
12630 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
12631 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
12632 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
12634 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
12635 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
12636 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
12637 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12638 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
12639 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
12640 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12641 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
12642 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
12643 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
12644 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
12647 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
12648 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
12649 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
12650 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
12651 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12653 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12654 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
12655 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
12656 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
12657 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
12660 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
12661 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
12662 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12663 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
12664 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
12665 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12667 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12668 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
12669 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
12670 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12672 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
12673 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
12674 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
12675 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
12677 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
12678 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
12679 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
12680 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
12683 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
12684 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
12685 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
12688 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
12689 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12690 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
12691 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
12692 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
12695 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12696 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
12697 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
12699 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
12700 Resolves ticket 12205.
12701 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
12702 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
12703 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
12704 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
12706 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
12707 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
12708 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
12710 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
12711 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
12713 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
12714 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
12715 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
12716 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
12717 or_options_t structure.
12720 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
12721 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
12722 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
12723 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
12726 o Removed features:
12727 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
12728 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
12729 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
12730 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
12731 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
12732 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
12733 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
12734 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
12735 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
12737 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
12738 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
12740 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
12741 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
12742 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
12743 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
12744 anymore, and ignore it.
12747 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
12748 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
12749 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
12750 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
12751 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
12752 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
12753 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
12754 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
12755 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
12756 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
12757 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
12758 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
12760 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
12761 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
12762 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
12764 o Distribution (systemd):
12765 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
12766 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
12767 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
12768 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
12769 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
12771 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
12772 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
12774 o Removed features (directory authorities):
12775 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
12776 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
12777 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
12778 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
12779 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
12780 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
12781 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
12782 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
12783 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
12785 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
12786 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
12787 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
12788 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
12791 o Testing (test-network.sh):
12792 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
12793 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
12795 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
12797 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
12798 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
12799 Partially implements ticket 13161.
12802 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
12803 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
12805 It adds several new security features, including improved
12806 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
12807 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
12808 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
12809 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
12810 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
12811 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
12812 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
12813 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
12814 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
12815 and features mentioned below.
12817 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
12818 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
12820 o Deprecated versions:
12821 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
12822 attention for some while.
12825 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
12826 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
12827 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
12828 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
12829 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
12830 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
12832 o Major security fixes:
12833 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
12834 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
12835 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
12837 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
12838 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
12839 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
12840 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
12843 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
12844 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
12845 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
12846 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12848 o Compilation fixes:
12849 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
12850 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
12851 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
12853 o Downgraded warnings:
12854 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
12855 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
12858 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
12859 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
12860 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
12861 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
12862 (which does affect Tor).
12864 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
12865 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
12866 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
12867 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
12869 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
12870 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
12871 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
12872 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
12875 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
12876 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
12877 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
12878 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
12879 the directory authorities.
12882 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
12883 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
12884 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
12885 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
12886 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
12887 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
12888 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
12889 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
12890 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
12891 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
12892 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
12893 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12895 o Directory authority changes:
12896 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
12899 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
12900 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
12901 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
12902 the directory authorities.
12905 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
12906 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
12907 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
12908 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
12909 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
12910 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
12911 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
12912 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
12913 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
12914 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
12915 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
12916 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12918 o Directory authority changes:
12919 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
12921 o Minor features (geoip):
12922 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12926 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
12927 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
12928 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
12929 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
12930 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
12932 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
12933 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
12934 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
12935 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
12936 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
12937 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
12938 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12939 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
12940 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
12941 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
12942 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
12943 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
12944 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
12945 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12946 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
12947 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
12949 o Major bugfixes (relay):
12950 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
12951 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12952 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
12953 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
12954 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
12955 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
12956 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12958 o Minor features (bridge):
12959 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
12960 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
12962 o Minor features (geoip):
12963 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12966 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12967 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
12968 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
12969 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
12970 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
12971 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
12972 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12973 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
12974 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
12975 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
12976 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
12977 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
12978 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
12979 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
12980 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
12982 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
12983 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
12984 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
12985 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
12986 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
12988 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12989 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
12990 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12991 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
12992 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
12995 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12996 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
12997 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12998 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
12999 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
13000 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
13001 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
13002 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13003 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
13004 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
13005 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
13008 o Distribution (systemd):
13009 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
13010 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
13011 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
13012 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
13013 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
13014 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
13015 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
13016 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
13017 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
13021 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
13022 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
13024 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
13028 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
13029 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
13030 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
13031 us closer to a release candidate.
13033 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
13034 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
13035 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
13036 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
13037 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
13039 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
13040 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
13041 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
13042 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
13043 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
13044 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
13045 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
13046 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
13047 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
13051 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
13052 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
13053 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
13054 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
13055 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
13056 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
13057 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
13058 to build circuits".
13061 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
13062 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
13063 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
13064 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
13065 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
13066 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
13067 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
13068 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13070 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
13072 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
13073 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
13074 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
13075 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
13076 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
13077 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
13078 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
13079 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
13080 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
13081 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13084 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
13085 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
13086 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
13087 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
13089 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
13090 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
13091 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
13094 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
13095 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
13096 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
13097 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
13100 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
13101 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
13102 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
13103 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
13104 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
13105 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
13106 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
13107 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
13108 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
13109 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
13112 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
13113 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
13114 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
13115 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
13116 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
13117 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
13118 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
13119 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
13123 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
13124 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
13125 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
13126 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
13127 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
13128 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
13129 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
13130 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
13131 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13132 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
13133 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
13134 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
13135 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
13138 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13142 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
13143 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
13144 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
13145 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
13146 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
13147 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
13150 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
13151 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
13152 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
13153 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
13154 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
13155 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
13156 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
13157 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
13158 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
13159 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
13160 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
13161 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
13162 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13164 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
13165 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
13166 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
13167 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
13170 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
13171 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
13172 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
13174 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
13175 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
13176 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
13177 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
13178 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
13179 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
13180 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
13181 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
13182 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
13183 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
13184 router's identity is not forgeable.
13186 o Major bugfixes (relay):
13187 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
13188 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
13189 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
13190 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13191 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
13192 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
13193 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
13194 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
13195 bugfix on every version of Tor.
13197 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
13198 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
13199 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
13200 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
13203 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13204 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
13205 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
13206 help diagnose bug 7164.
13207 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
13208 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
13209 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
13210 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
13211 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
13213 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
13214 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
13215 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
13216 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
13217 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
13218 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
13219 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
13221 o Minor features (security, memory management):
13222 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
13223 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
13224 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
13225 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
13226 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
13227 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
13229 o Minor features (security):
13230 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
13231 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
13232 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
13233 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
13235 o Minor features (build):
13236 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
13237 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
13238 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
13240 o Minor features (other):
13241 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13244 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
13245 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
13246 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
13247 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
13248 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13250 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13251 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
13252 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
13253 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
13254 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
13255 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
13256 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
13257 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
13258 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
13259 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
13260 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
13261 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
13263 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13264 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
13265 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
13266 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
13267 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
13268 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
13269 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
13270 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
13271 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
13272 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
13273 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13274 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
13275 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
13276 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
13277 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
13278 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
13279 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
13280 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
13283 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
13284 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
13285 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
13286 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
13287 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
13288 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
13289 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
13291 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
13292 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
13293 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13294 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
13295 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13296 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
13297 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13298 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
13299 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
13301 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
13302 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
13304 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
13305 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
13307 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
13308 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
13309 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13310 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
13311 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
13312 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13313 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
13314 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
13315 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
13317 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
13318 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
13319 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
13320 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
13321 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
13322 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13323 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
13324 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
13325 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13326 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
13327 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
13328 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13329 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
13330 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
13331 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
13332 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
13333 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
13334 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13336 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
13337 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
13338 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
13339 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
13340 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
13341 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13342 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
13343 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
13344 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
13347 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13348 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
13349 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
13350 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
13351 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13353 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13354 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
13355 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
13356 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
13358 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
13359 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
13360 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
13361 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13362 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
13363 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
13364 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
13365 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
13367 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
13368 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
13369 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
13370 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
13373 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
13374 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
13375 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
13376 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
13377 versions. Found by "skruffy".
13378 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
13379 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
13380 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
13383 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
13384 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
13385 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
13386 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
13389 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
13390 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
13391 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
13392 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
13394 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
13395 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
13396 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
13398 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
13399 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
13400 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13402 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13403 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
13404 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13405 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
13406 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
13410 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
13411 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
13412 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
13413 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
13416 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
13417 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
13418 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
13419 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
13421 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
13422 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
13424 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
13425 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
13426 caches don't get confused.
13429 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
13430 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
13431 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
13432 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
13433 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
13436 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
13437 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
13438 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
13439 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
13440 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
13441 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
13445 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
13446 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
13447 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
13448 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
13449 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
13450 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
13451 of RAM, and several others.
13453 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13454 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
13455 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
13456 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
13457 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
13459 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
13460 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
13461 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
13462 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
13465 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13466 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
13467 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
13468 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
13469 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
13470 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
13471 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13472 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
13473 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
13474 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
13475 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
13476 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
13477 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
13478 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
13479 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
13480 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
13481 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
13482 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
13483 Resolves ticket 11438.
13485 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
13486 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
13487 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
13488 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
13489 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
13490 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13492 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13493 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
13494 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
13496 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13497 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
13498 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13500 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13501 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
13502 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
13503 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13505 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13506 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
13507 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
13509 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13510 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
13511 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
13514 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
13515 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
13516 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
13517 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
13520 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13521 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
13522 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
13523 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
13525 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13526 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
13527 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
13528 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
13530 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13531 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
13532 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
13536 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
13537 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
13538 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
13539 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
13540 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
13541 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
13542 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
13543 the Linux sandbox code.
13545 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
13546 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
13547 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
13549 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
13550 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
13552 o Major features (security):
13553 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
13554 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
13555 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
13556 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
13557 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
13558 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
13559 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
13560 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
13562 o Major features (relay performance):
13563 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
13564 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
13565 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
13566 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
13567 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
13568 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
13569 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
13570 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
13571 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
13572 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
13574 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
13575 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
13576 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
13577 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
13578 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
13579 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
13580 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
13582 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
13583 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
13585 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
13586 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
13587 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
13588 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
13589 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
13590 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
13591 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13592 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
13593 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
13594 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
13595 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
13596 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
13597 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
13598 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
13599 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
13600 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
13601 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
13602 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
13603 Resolves ticket 11438.
13605 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
13606 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
13607 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
13608 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13610 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
13611 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
13612 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
13613 10267; patch from "yurivict".
13614 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
13615 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
13616 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
13617 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
13618 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
13619 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
13621 o Minor features (security):
13622 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
13623 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
13624 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
13625 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
13628 o Minor features (log verbosity):
13629 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
13630 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
13631 Resolves ticket 5286.
13632 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
13633 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
13634 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
13635 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
13636 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
13637 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
13638 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
13639 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
13640 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
13642 o Minor features (relay):
13643 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
13644 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
13645 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
13647 o Minor features (controller):
13648 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
13649 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
13651 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
13652 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
13653 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
13655 o Minor features (bridge client):
13656 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
13657 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
13658 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
13660 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13661 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
13662 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
13663 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
13664 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
13665 still referenced by a live node_t object.
13667 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
13668 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
13669 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
13670 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
13672 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
13673 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
13674 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
13675 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
13678 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
13679 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
13680 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13682 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
13683 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
13684 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
13685 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13686 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
13687 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
13688 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13690 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
13691 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
13692 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
13693 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13694 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
13695 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
13696 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13697 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
13698 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
13699 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
13700 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13701 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
13702 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
13705 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
13706 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
13707 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
13708 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
13709 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
13711 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
13712 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
13713 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
13716 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13717 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
13718 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
13720 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
13721 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
13722 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13724 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
13725 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
13726 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
13727 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
13729 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
13730 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
13731 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13732 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
13733 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
13735 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
13736 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
13737 early. Fixes bug 10081.
13739 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
13740 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
13741 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
13742 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
13743 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13744 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
13745 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
13746 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
13748 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
13749 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
13750 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
13751 should never have affected anyone in practice.
13753 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13754 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
13755 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13757 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
13758 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
13759 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
13760 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
13761 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
13762 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
13763 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
13764 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
13765 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
13766 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
13767 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
13768 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
13769 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
13770 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
13772 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
13773 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
13774 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
13775 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
13776 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
13777 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
13778 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
13779 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
13783 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
13784 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
13785 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
13786 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13787 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
13788 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13789 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
13790 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
13792 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
13794 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13795 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
13796 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
13797 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
13798 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
13801 o Deprecated versions:
13802 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
13803 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
13804 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
13805 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
13808 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
13809 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
13810 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
13811 Patch from Dana Koch.
13814 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
13815 Resolves ticket 11070.
13818 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
13819 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
13820 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
13821 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
13822 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
13825 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
13826 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
13828 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
13829 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
13830 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
13831 streams attached to each circuit.
13833 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
13834 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
13835 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
13836 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
13837 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
13838 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
13839 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
13840 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
13841 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
13842 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
13843 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
13844 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
13845 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
13847 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
13848 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
13849 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
13851 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
13852 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
13853 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
13854 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
13855 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
13856 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
13857 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
13858 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
13859 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
13861 o Minor features (other):
13862 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
13863 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
13864 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
13865 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
13866 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
13867 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
13868 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
13869 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
13870 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13873 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
13874 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
13875 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
13876 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
13877 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
13878 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
13879 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
13880 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
13882 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13883 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
13884 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
13885 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
13886 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13887 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
13888 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
13889 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
13891 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
13892 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
13893 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
13894 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
13895 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
13896 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13897 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
13898 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
13899 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13900 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
13901 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
13902 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13904 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
13905 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
13906 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
13907 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
13908 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
13909 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
13910 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
13911 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
13912 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13913 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
13914 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
13915 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
13916 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
13917 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
13919 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
13920 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
13922 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
13923 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
13924 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
13925 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
13926 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
13927 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
13928 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13929 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
13930 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
13931 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
13932 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
13933 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13934 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
13935 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
13937 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13938 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
13939 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
13940 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
13943 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
13944 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
13945 the rest of bug 10841.
13948 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
13949 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
13950 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
13951 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
13952 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
13953 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
13954 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
13955 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
13956 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
13957 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
13958 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
13959 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13960 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
13961 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
13962 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13964 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13965 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
13966 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
13968 o Test infrastructure:
13969 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
13970 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
13971 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
13972 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
13975 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
13976 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
13977 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
13978 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
13980 o Major features (client security):
13981 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
13982 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
13983 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
13984 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
13985 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
13986 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
13989 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
13990 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
13991 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
13992 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13994 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13995 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
13996 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
13997 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
13998 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
14001 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
14002 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
14004 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
14005 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
14006 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
14007 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
14008 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
14009 GeoLite2 Country database.
14012 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
14013 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
14014 bugfix on every released Tor.
14015 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
14016 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
14017 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
14018 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14019 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
14020 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
14021 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
14022 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
14023 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
14024 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14025 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
14026 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
14027 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14028 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
14029 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
14031 o Documentation fixes:
14032 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
14033 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
14036 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
14037 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
14038 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
14039 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
14040 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
14041 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
14042 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
14043 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
14045 o Major features (client security):
14046 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
14047 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
14048 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
14049 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
14050 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
14051 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
14052 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
14053 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
14054 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
14055 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
14056 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
14057 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
14059 o Major features (bridges):
14060 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
14061 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
14062 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
14063 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
14064 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
14065 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
14066 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
14067 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
14070 o Major features (other):
14071 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
14072 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
14073 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
14074 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
14075 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
14076 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
14077 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
14078 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
14079 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
14080 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
14081 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
14082 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
14085 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
14086 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
14087 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14088 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
14089 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
14090 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
14091 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14093 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
14094 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
14095 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
14096 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
14097 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
14098 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
14099 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
14100 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
14101 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
14103 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
14104 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14105 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
14106 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
14107 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
14108 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
14110 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
14111 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
14112 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
14113 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
14114 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
14115 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
14118 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
14119 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
14120 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
14121 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
14122 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
14123 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
14124 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
14126 o Minor features (security):
14127 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
14128 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
14131 o Minor features (config options and command line):
14132 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
14133 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
14134 Implements ticket 10060.
14135 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
14136 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
14137 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
14139 o Minor features (controller):
14140 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
14141 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
14142 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
14143 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
14144 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
14147 o Minor features (build):
14148 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
14149 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
14150 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
14151 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
14152 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
14153 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
14154 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
14156 o Minor features (testing):
14157 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
14158 the unit test scripts.
14159 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
14160 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
14161 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
14162 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
14164 o Minor features (log messages):
14165 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
14166 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
14167 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
14168 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
14169 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
14170 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
14171 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
14172 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
14173 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
14174 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
14176 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
14177 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
14178 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
14179 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
14180 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
14181 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
14182 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
14183 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
14184 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
14185 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14187 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
14188 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
14189 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
14190 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
14193 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
14194 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
14195 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
14196 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
14197 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14199 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
14200 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
14201 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
14202 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
14203 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
14204 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
14205 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
14207 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
14208 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
14209 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
14210 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
14211 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
14212 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
14213 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14214 Reported by "mr-4".
14215 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
14216 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
14217 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
14218 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14220 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
14221 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
14222 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
14223 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
14224 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
14225 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
14226 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
14227 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
14228 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
14229 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
14230 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14232 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14233 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
14234 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
14235 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
14236 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
14237 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
14238 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
14239 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
14240 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
14241 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
14243 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
14244 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
14245 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
14246 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
14249 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14250 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
14251 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
14252 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
14253 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
14254 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
14256 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
14257 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14259 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14260 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
14261 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
14262 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14264 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
14265 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
14266 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
14267 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14268 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
14269 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
14270 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
14271 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
14272 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
14273 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
14274 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
14275 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
14276 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
14277 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
14279 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
14280 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
14281 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14282 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
14283 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
14284 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
14286 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
14287 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
14288 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14289 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
14290 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
14291 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
14292 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
14293 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
14294 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
14295 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14296 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
14297 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14299 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
14300 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
14301 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
14302 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
14303 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
14304 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14305 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
14306 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
14307 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
14308 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
14309 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
14310 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
14311 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
14312 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
14313 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
14314 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
14317 o Removed code and features:
14318 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
14319 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
14320 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
14321 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
14322 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
14323 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
14325 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
14326 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
14327 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
14328 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
14329 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
14330 part of a fix for bug 10841.
14332 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14333 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
14334 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
14335 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
14336 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
14337 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
14338 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
14339 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
14340 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
14341 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
14342 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
14345 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
14346 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
14347 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
14348 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
14349 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
14351 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
14352 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
14353 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
14354 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
14355 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
14356 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
14357 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
14360 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
14361 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
14362 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
14365 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
14366 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
14367 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
14368 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
14369 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
14370 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
14371 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
14373 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
14374 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
14377 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
14378 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
14379 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
14380 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
14381 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
14382 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
14383 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
14384 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
14386 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
14387 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14388 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
14389 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
14390 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
14391 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
14394 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
14395 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14396 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
14397 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
14398 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
14401 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
14402 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
14403 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
14404 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
14405 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
14406 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
14407 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
14408 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
14410 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
14411 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
14412 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
14413 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
14414 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
14415 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
14416 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
14417 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
14418 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
14419 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
14420 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
14421 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
14422 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
14423 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
14424 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
14425 security, and privacy fixes.
14428 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
14429 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
14430 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
14431 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
14434 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
14435 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
14436 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
14437 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
14438 them to solve bug 6033.)
14441 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
14442 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
14443 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
14444 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
14445 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
14446 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14447 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
14448 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
14450 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
14451 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
14452 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
14453 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
14455 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
14456 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
14457 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14458 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
14459 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
14460 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
14461 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
14462 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
14463 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
14464 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14465 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
14466 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14468 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
14469 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
14470 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
14471 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
14472 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
14473 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14474 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
14475 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
14476 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
14477 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
14478 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
14479 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
14480 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
14481 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
14482 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
14483 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
14486 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
14487 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
14488 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
14489 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
14490 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
14491 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
14492 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
14493 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
14494 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
14495 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
14496 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
14497 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
14498 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
14499 Implements part of proposal 222.
14501 o Minor features (other):
14502 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
14503 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
14504 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
14505 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
14506 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
14507 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
14508 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
14509 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
14510 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14512 o Documentation fixes:
14513 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
14514 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
14515 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
14516 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
14517 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
14518 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
14521 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
14522 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
14523 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
14524 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
14525 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
14526 release of the new branch.
14528 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
14529 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
14530 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
14532 o Major features (security):
14533 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
14534 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
14535 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
14536 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
14537 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
14538 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
14539 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
14540 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
14541 Google Summer of Code.
14542 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
14543 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
14544 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
14545 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
14546 them to solve bug 6033.)
14548 o Major features (other):
14549 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
14550 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
14551 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
14552 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
14553 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
14555 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
14556 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
14557 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
14558 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
14559 Implements ticket 8530.
14560 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
14561 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
14564 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
14565 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
14566 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
14567 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
14568 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
14569 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14570 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
14571 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
14572 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14573 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
14574 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
14575 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
14576 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
14579 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
14580 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
14581 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
14582 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
14583 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
14584 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
14585 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
14586 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
14587 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
14588 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
14592 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
14593 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
14594 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
14595 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
14596 invoking the other functions it calls.
14597 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
14598 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
14599 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
14600 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
14602 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
14603 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
14604 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
14605 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
14606 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
14607 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
14608 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
14609 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
14610 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
14611 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
14612 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
14613 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
14614 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
14615 Implements part of proposal 222.
14617 o Minor features (config options):
14618 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
14619 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
14620 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
14621 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
14622 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
14623 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
14624 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
14625 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
14626 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
14627 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
14628 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
14629 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
14630 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
14631 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
14632 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
14633 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
14634 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
14637 o Minor features (build):
14638 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
14639 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
14640 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
14641 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
14642 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
14645 o Minor features (other):
14646 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
14647 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
14648 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
14649 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
14650 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
14651 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
14652 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
14653 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
14654 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
14655 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
14656 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
14657 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
14658 Closes ticket 8109.
14659 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14662 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
14663 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
14664 bugfix on every released Tor.
14665 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
14666 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
14667 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
14668 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
14669 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
14670 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
14672 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
14673 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
14674 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
14675 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14676 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
14677 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
14678 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
14679 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
14681 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
14682 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
14683 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
14684 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
14685 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
14687 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
14688 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14690 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
14691 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
14692 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
14694 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
14695 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
14696 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
14697 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
14698 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14700 o Minor code improvements:
14701 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
14702 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
14704 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
14705 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
14706 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
14707 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
14708 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
14710 o Removed features:
14711 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
14712 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
14713 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
14714 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
14716 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14717 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
14718 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
14719 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
14720 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
14721 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
14722 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
14723 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
14724 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
14725 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
14726 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
14727 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
14728 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
14729 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
14730 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
14731 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
14734 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
14735 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
14736 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
14737 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
14738 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
14739 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
14740 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
14743 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
14744 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
14745 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
14746 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
14747 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
14748 Implements ticket 9574.
14751 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
14752 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
14753 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
14754 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
14755 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
14756 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
14757 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
14758 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
14759 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
14760 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
14761 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
14762 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
14766 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
14767 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
14768 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
14769 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
14771 o Minor fixes (config options):
14772 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
14773 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
14774 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
14775 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
14776 message is logged at notice, not at info.
14777 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
14778 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
14779 or we just won't work.)
14782 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
14783 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
14784 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
14785 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14788 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
14789 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
14790 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
14793 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
14794 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
14795 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14796 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
14797 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14798 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
14799 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
14801 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
14802 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14803 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
14804 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
14807 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
14808 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
14809 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14810 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
14811 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
14812 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
14813 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
14814 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
14815 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
14816 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
14817 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14818 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
14819 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
14822 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14825 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
14826 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
14827 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
14828 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
14831 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
14832 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
14833 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14836 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
14837 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
14838 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
14841 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
14842 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
14843 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14846 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
14847 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
14848 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
14849 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
14850 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
14851 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
14853 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
14854 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
14855 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
14856 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
14857 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
14858 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14860 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
14861 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
14862 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14865 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
14866 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
14867 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
14868 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
14869 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
14871 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
14872 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
14873 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
14874 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
14875 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
14876 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
14877 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
14879 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
14880 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
14881 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
14883 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
14884 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
14888 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
14889 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
14890 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
14892 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
14893 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
14894 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
14895 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
14896 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
14897 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
14899 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
14900 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
14901 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
14902 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
14903 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
14904 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
14905 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
14908 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
14909 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
14910 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
14911 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
14912 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
14913 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
14914 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14915 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
14916 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14917 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
14918 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
14919 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14920 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
14921 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
14923 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
14924 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
14925 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
14926 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
14929 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
14930 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
14931 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
14932 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
14933 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
14934 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
14936 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
14937 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
14941 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
14942 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
14943 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
14944 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
14945 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
14946 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
14947 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14949 o Removed documentation:
14950 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
14951 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
14953 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14954 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
14955 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
14956 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
14959 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
14960 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
14961 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
14962 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
14963 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
14964 variety of other issues.
14967 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
14968 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
14969 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
14970 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
14971 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
14972 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14973 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
14974 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
14976 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
14977 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
14978 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
14980 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
14981 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
14982 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
14983 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
14984 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
14985 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
14986 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14988 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
14989 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
14990 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
14991 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
14992 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
14993 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
14994 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
14995 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14996 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
14997 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
14998 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
14999 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
15000 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15001 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
15002 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
15003 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
15004 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
15005 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
15006 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
15007 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
15008 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15010 o Major bugfixes (other):
15011 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
15012 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
15013 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
15014 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15017 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
15018 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
15019 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
15020 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
15022 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
15023 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
15025 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15027 o Minor features (build):
15028 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
15029 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
15031 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
15032 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
15034 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
15035 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
15036 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
15039 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15040 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
15041 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15042 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15043 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
15044 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
15045 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15046 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
15047 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
15048 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15049 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
15050 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
15051 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
15052 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
15055 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
15056 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
15057 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
15058 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
15059 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
15060 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
15061 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
15062 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
15063 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
15064 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
15065 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
15066 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
15067 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
15068 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15069 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15071 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15072 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
15073 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15074 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
15075 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
15076 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
15077 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
15078 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15079 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
15080 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
15081 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
15082 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
15083 Should help resolve bug 8235.
15084 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
15085 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
15086 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
15087 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15089 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
15090 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
15091 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
15092 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
15093 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
15094 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
15095 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
15096 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
15099 o Minor bugfixes (config):
15100 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
15101 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
15103 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
15104 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
15105 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
15106 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
15107 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
15108 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
15109 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15110 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
15111 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
15112 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
15113 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
15114 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
15115 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15116 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
15117 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
15120 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
15121 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
15122 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
15123 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
15124 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
15125 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
15126 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
15127 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
15129 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
15130 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
15131 or at least make it more diagnosable.
15132 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
15133 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
15134 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
15135 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15137 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
15138 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
15139 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
15140 the relaxed timeout log message.
15141 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
15142 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
15143 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
15145 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
15146 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
15147 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15148 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
15149 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15150 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
15151 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
15154 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
15155 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
15156 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
15157 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
15158 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15159 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
15160 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
15161 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
15162 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
15163 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
15164 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
15165 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
15166 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15167 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
15168 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
15169 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
15170 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15172 o Documentation fixes:
15173 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
15174 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
15175 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
15176 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
15177 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
15178 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
15179 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
15180 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
15183 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
15184 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
15188 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
15189 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
15190 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
15191 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
15193 o Major features (directory authorities):
15194 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
15195 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
15196 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
15197 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
15198 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
15199 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
15200 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
15201 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
15202 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
15203 Implements ticket 8151.
15205 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
15206 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
15207 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
15208 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
15209 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
15211 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15212 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
15213 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
15214 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
15215 whether authentication information is present, causing all
15216 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
15217 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
15219 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
15220 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
15221 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
15222 bugs 1913 and 1992.
15223 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
15224 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
15225 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
15226 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
15227 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
15228 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
15229 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
15230 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
15231 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
15232 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
15233 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
15234 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
15235 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
15236 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
15237 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
15238 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
15239 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
15240 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
15243 o Minor features (portability):
15244 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
15245 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15246 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
15247 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
15248 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
15249 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
15250 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
15251 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15253 o Minor features (other):
15254 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
15255 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
15256 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
15257 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
15258 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
15259 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
15260 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
15261 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
15263 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15265 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
15266 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
15267 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
15268 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
15269 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
15270 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
15271 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
15272 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
15273 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
15274 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
15276 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
15277 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
15278 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
15279 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15281 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15282 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
15283 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
15284 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
15285 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
15286 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
15287 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
15289 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
15290 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
15291 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
15292 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
15293 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
15295 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
15296 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
15297 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
15298 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
15300 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
15301 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
15302 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
15305 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
15306 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
15307 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
15308 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
15310 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
15311 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
15312 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
15313 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15315 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
15316 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
15317 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
15318 this is CID 718634.
15319 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
15320 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
15321 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
15322 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
15324 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
15325 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
15326 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15327 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
15328 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
15329 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
15330 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15332 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15333 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
15337 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
15338 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
15339 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
15340 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
15341 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
15344 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
15345 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
15346 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
15347 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
15349 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
15350 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
15351 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
15355 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
15356 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
15357 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
15358 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
15359 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
15360 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
15361 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
15362 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
15363 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
15364 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
15365 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
15366 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
15367 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
15370 o Major features (relay):
15371 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
15372 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
15373 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
15374 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
15375 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
15376 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
15377 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
15379 o Major features (portability):
15380 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
15381 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
15382 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
15383 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
15384 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15387 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
15388 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
15389 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
15390 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
15391 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
15392 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
15394 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
15395 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
15396 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
15397 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
15398 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
15399 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
15400 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
15401 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
15403 o Minor features (path selection):
15404 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
15405 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
15406 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
15407 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
15408 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
15409 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
15410 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
15411 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
15412 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
15413 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
15414 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
15415 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
15416 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
15417 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
15418 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
15419 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
15420 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
15421 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
15422 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
15424 o Minor features (log messages):
15425 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
15426 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
15427 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
15428 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
15431 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
15432 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
15433 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15434 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
15435 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
15436 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
15437 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
15438 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
15439 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
15440 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15441 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
15442 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15444 o Build improvements:
15445 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
15446 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
15447 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
15448 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
15449 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
15450 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
15451 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
15452 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
15453 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
15454 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
15455 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
15456 than to perform erroneously.
15458 o Removed features:
15459 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
15460 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
15461 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
15463 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
15464 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
15465 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
15468 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15469 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
15471 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
15472 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
15476 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
15477 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
15478 work more robustly.
15481 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
15482 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
15483 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
15487 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
15488 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
15489 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
15490 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
15493 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
15494 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
15495 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
15496 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
15497 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
15498 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
15499 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
15500 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
15501 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
15502 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
15503 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
15504 closes ticket 7199.
15506 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
15507 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
15508 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
15509 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
15510 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
15511 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
15512 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
15513 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
15514 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
15515 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
15516 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
15518 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
15519 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
15520 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
15522 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
15523 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
15524 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
15526 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
15528 o Major features (better link encryption):
15529 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
15530 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
15531 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
15532 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
15533 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
15534 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
15537 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
15538 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
15539 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
15540 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
15541 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
15542 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
15543 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
15545 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
15546 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
15547 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
15548 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
15550 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
15553 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
15554 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
15555 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15558 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
15559 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
15560 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
15561 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
15562 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
15563 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
15564 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
15565 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
15566 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15568 o Minor features (testing):
15569 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
15570 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
15571 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
15573 o Minor features (path bias detection):
15574 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
15575 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
15576 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
15577 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
15578 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
15579 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
15580 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
15581 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
15582 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
15583 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
15584 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
15585 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
15586 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
15587 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
15588 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
15589 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
15590 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
15591 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
15592 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
15593 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
15594 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
15595 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
15596 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
15597 detection capability loss.
15599 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
15600 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
15601 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
15602 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
15603 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15604 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
15605 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
15606 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
15609 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15610 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
15611 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
15612 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
15613 and the different handshakes it supports.
15614 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
15615 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
15616 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
15617 any encoding is overkill.
15620 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
15621 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
15622 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
15623 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
15624 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
15625 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
15626 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
15627 and fixes a variety of other issues.
15629 o Major features (client resilience):
15630 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
15631 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
15632 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
15633 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
15634 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
15635 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
15636 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
15637 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
15638 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
15639 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
15640 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
15641 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
15642 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
15643 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
15644 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
15646 o Major features (IPv6):
15647 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
15648 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
15649 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
15650 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
15651 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
15652 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
15653 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
15654 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
15656 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
15657 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
15659 o Major features (geoip database):
15660 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
15661 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
15662 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
15663 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
15664 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
15665 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
15666 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
15667 Country database, as modified above.
15669 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
15670 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
15671 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
15672 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
15673 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
15674 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
15675 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
15676 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
15677 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
15678 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
15679 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
15680 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
15681 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
15682 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
15683 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
15684 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
15685 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
15688 o Major bugfixes (other):
15689 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
15690 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
15691 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
15692 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
15693 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
15694 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
15695 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
15696 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
15698 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
15699 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15702 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
15703 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
15704 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
15705 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
15706 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
15707 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
15708 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
15709 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
15711 o Minor features (IPv6):
15712 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
15713 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
15714 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
15715 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
15716 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
15717 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
15718 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
15719 connect to the wrong addresses.
15720 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
15721 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
15722 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
15723 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
15727 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
15728 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
15729 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
15730 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
15731 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
15732 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
15733 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
15735 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
15736 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
15737 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
15740 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
15741 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
15743 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15744 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
15745 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
15746 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
15747 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
15750 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
15751 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
15752 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
15753 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
15754 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
15755 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
15756 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
15757 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
15759 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
15760 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
15761 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
15762 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
15763 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
15764 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
15765 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
15766 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
15767 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
15768 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
15769 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
15772 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
15773 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
15774 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
15775 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
15776 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
15777 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
15778 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
15779 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
15780 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
15781 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
15784 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
15785 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
15789 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
15790 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
15791 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
15792 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
15795 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
15796 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
15798 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
15799 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
15800 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
15801 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
15802 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
15803 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
15804 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
15805 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
15806 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
15807 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
15810 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
15812 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
15813 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
15814 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
15815 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
15816 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
15819 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
15820 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
15821 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15822 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
15823 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
15825 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
15826 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
15827 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
15828 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
15829 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
15830 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
15831 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
15833 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
15834 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15835 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
15836 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
15837 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
15838 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15839 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
15840 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15842 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15843 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
15844 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
15845 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
15846 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
15847 present the same extensions.)
15850 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
15851 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
15852 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
15853 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
15854 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
15856 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
15857 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
15858 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
15859 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
15861 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
15862 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
15863 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
15864 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15866 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
15867 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
15868 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
15869 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
15870 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
15871 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
15872 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
15873 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
15874 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15876 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
15877 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
15878 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
15879 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
15880 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15883 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
15884 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
15885 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
15887 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15888 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
15890 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
15891 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
15895 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
15896 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
15897 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
15898 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
15901 o Major bugfixes (security):
15902 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
15903 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
15904 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
15906 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
15907 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
15908 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
15909 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15912 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
15913 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
15914 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
15915 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
15916 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
15917 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
15918 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
15919 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15922 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
15923 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
15924 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
15925 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15928 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
15929 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
15930 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
15931 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
15932 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
15933 scheduling algorithms.
15935 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
15936 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
15937 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
15939 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
15940 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
15941 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
15942 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
15943 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
15944 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
15945 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
15946 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
15947 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
15948 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
15949 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
15951 o Internal abstraction features:
15952 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
15953 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
15954 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
15955 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
15956 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
15957 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
15958 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
15959 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
15960 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
15961 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
15962 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
15963 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
15964 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
15965 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
15966 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
15967 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
15968 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
15970 o Required libraries:
15971 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
15972 strongly recommended.
15975 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
15976 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
15977 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
15978 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
15979 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
15980 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
15981 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
15982 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
15983 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
15985 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
15986 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
15987 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
15988 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
15989 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
15990 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
15991 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
15992 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15993 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
15994 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
15995 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
15996 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
15997 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
15998 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
15999 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16002 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
16003 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
16004 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
16005 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
16006 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
16007 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
16008 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
16009 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
16010 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
16011 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
16012 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
16013 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
16014 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
16015 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
16016 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16017 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
16018 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
16019 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
16020 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
16022 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
16023 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
16024 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
16025 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
16026 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
16027 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
16028 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
16031 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
16032 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
16033 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
16034 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
16036 o New directory authorities:
16037 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
16038 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
16040 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
16041 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
16042 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
16043 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
16044 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
16045 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
16046 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
16047 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
16048 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
16049 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
16050 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
16053 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
16054 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
16055 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
16057 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
16058 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
16059 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
16060 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16061 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
16062 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
16063 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16064 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
16065 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
16067 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16068 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
16069 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
16070 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
16071 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
16072 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
16073 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
16074 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
16075 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
16076 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
16077 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
16078 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
16079 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
16080 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
16081 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
16082 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
16083 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
16084 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
16086 o Documentation fixes:
16087 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
16090 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
16091 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
16092 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
16093 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
16096 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
16097 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
16098 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16101 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
16102 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
16103 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
16104 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
16105 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
16106 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
16107 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
16108 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
16110 o Security features:
16111 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
16112 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
16113 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
16114 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
16115 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
16116 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
16117 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
16118 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
16119 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
16123 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
16124 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
16125 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
16128 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
16129 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
16130 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
16131 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
16132 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16133 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
16134 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
16135 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
16136 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
16137 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
16138 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16139 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
16140 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
16141 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
16143 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
16144 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16145 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
16146 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
16147 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16149 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
16150 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
16151 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
16152 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16153 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
16154 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
16155 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16156 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
16157 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
16158 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
16159 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
16160 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
16161 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
16162 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16163 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
16164 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
16165 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
16166 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
16167 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
16168 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
16170 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16171 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
16172 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
16173 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
16174 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
16175 testable, and a little less fragile too.
16176 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
16177 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16179 o Documentation fixes:
16180 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
16181 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
16185 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
16186 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
16190 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
16191 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
16192 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16195 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
16196 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
16200 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
16201 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
16205 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
16206 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
16207 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16208 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
16209 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
16210 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
16211 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
16215 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
16216 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
16217 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
16218 log messages less noisy.
16221 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
16222 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
16226 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
16227 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
16228 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
16229 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
16230 last time we raised it).
16233 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
16234 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
16236 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
16237 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
16238 part of ticket 6736.
16239 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
16240 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
16241 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
16245 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
16246 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
16247 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
16248 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
16249 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
16251 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
16252 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16253 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
16254 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
16255 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16256 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
16257 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
16258 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16259 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
16260 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16261 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
16262 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16264 o Removed features:
16265 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
16266 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
16267 bunch of compatibility code.
16269 o Code refactoring:
16270 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
16271 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
16272 the ORPort and the DirPort.
16275 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
16276 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
16277 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
16278 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
16280 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
16281 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
16282 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
16284 o Major features (bridges):
16285 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
16286 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
16287 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
16290 o Major features (IPv6):
16291 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
16292 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
16293 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
16294 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
16295 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
16296 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
16297 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
16298 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
16299 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
16301 o Major features (build):
16302 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
16303 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
16304 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
16305 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
16306 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
16307 fixes by Jim Meyering.
16308 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
16309 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
16310 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
16312 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
16313 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
16314 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
16315 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
16316 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
16317 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
16318 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
16319 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
16320 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
16321 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
16322 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
16324 o Minor features (streamlining);
16325 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
16326 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
16328 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
16329 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
16330 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
16331 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
16332 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
16333 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16335 o Minor features (controller):
16336 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
16338 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
16339 Implements ticket 4971.
16341 o Minor features (IPv6):
16342 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
16343 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
16344 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
16345 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
16346 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
16348 o Minor features (log messages):
16349 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
16350 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
16351 Resolves ticket 6758.
16352 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
16353 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
16354 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
16355 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16356 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
16357 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
16358 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
16360 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
16361 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
16362 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
16363 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
16364 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
16367 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16368 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
16369 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
16370 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
16371 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
16373 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
16374 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
16375 Implements ticket 5529.
16376 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
16377 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
16378 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
16379 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
16380 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
16381 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
16382 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
16383 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
16384 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
16385 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
16387 o New requirements:
16388 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
16389 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
16390 from a source distribution.)
16393 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
16394 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
16395 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
16396 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
16397 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
16398 and cleans up other smaller issues.
16400 o Major bugfixes (security):
16401 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
16402 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
16403 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
16404 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
16405 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
16406 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
16407 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
16408 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
16409 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
16410 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
16411 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
16412 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16413 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
16414 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
16415 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
16416 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
16420 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
16421 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
16422 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
16423 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16424 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
16425 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
16426 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
16427 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
16428 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
16429 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16432 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
16433 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
16434 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
16435 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
16436 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16437 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
16438 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
16439 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
16440 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
16441 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
16442 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
16444 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
16445 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
16446 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
16448 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
16449 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
16450 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
16451 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
16452 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16453 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
16454 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
16455 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
16456 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16457 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
16458 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16459 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
16460 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
16461 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
16464 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16465 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
16466 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
16467 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
16468 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16469 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
16470 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
16471 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
16472 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
16473 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
16474 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
16475 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
16476 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
16477 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
16478 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
16481 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
16482 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
16483 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
16484 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
16485 Resolves ticket 6732.
16488 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
16489 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
16490 attack that could in theory leak path information.
16493 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
16494 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
16495 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16496 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
16497 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
16498 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
16499 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
16500 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
16501 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
16502 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
16503 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
16504 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
16505 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
16506 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
16509 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
16510 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
16511 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
16512 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
16515 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
16516 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
16517 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16518 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
16519 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
16520 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16521 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
16522 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
16523 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
16524 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
16525 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
16526 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
16527 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
16528 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
16529 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
16530 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
16531 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
16534 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
16535 a little more useful.
16536 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
16537 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16538 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
16539 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
16540 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
16541 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
16542 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
16545 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
16546 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16547 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
16548 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16549 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
16550 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
16554 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
16555 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
16556 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
16557 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
16558 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
16561 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
16562 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
16563 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
16566 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
16568 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
16570 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16571 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
16572 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
16573 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
16574 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
16577 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
16578 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
16579 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
16580 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
16581 since the beginning of Tor.
16584 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
16585 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
16586 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
16587 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
16588 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
16589 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
16590 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
16591 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16592 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
16593 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
16596 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
16597 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
16600 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
16601 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
16602 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
16603 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
16606 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
16607 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16608 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
16609 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
16610 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
16611 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16613 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16614 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
16615 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
16616 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
16617 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
16618 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
16619 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16620 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
16621 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
16622 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
16623 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
16624 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
16625 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
16626 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
16627 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
16628 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
16629 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16630 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
16631 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
16633 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
16634 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
16635 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
16637 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
16638 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16639 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
16640 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
16642 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
16643 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16644 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
16645 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16646 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
16647 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
16648 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16649 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
16650 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
16651 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
16652 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16653 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
16654 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
16655 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16656 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
16657 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
16660 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
16661 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
16662 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
16663 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
16664 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
16667 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
16668 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
16669 options. Closes bug 4748.
16672 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
16673 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
16674 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
16675 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
16676 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
16680 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
16681 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
16683 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
16684 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
16685 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
16686 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
16687 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
16688 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
16689 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
16690 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
16691 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
16694 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
16695 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
16696 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
16697 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
16698 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
16699 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
16700 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
16701 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16704 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
16705 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
16706 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
16707 case for flushing marked connections.
16708 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
16709 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
16710 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
16711 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
16712 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
16713 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
16714 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16715 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
16716 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16717 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
16718 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
16719 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
16720 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16721 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
16722 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
16723 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
16724 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
16725 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
16726 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
16727 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
16728 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
16729 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
16730 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
16731 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
16732 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
16734 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
16735 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16736 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
16740 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
16741 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
16742 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
16743 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
16744 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
16745 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
16746 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
16747 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
16748 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
16749 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
16750 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
16751 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
16752 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
16753 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
16754 Addresses ticket 5458.
16755 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16757 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16758 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
16759 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
16762 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
16763 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
16764 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
16768 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
16769 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
16770 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
16771 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
16772 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
16773 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
16774 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16775 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
16776 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
16777 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
16778 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16781 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
16782 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16785 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
16786 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
16789 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
16790 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
16791 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
16792 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
16793 that get us closer to a release candidate.
16795 o Major bugfixes (general):
16796 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
16797 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
16798 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
16799 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
16800 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
16801 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
16802 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16803 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
16804 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
16806 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
16807 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
16808 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
16809 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
16812 o Major bugfixes (clients):
16813 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
16814 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
16815 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
16816 which introduced predicted ports.
16817 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
16818 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
16819 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
16820 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16821 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
16822 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
16823 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
16824 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
16825 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
16826 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
16827 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16828 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
16829 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
16831 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
16832 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
16833 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
16834 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
16835 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
16836 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
16837 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
16838 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
16839 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
16840 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
16841 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
16845 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
16846 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
16847 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
16848 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
16849 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
16850 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
16851 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
16852 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
16853 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
16854 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
16855 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
16856 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
16857 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
16858 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
16860 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
16861 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
16862 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
16863 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
16864 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
16865 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
16866 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
16867 sure. Closes bug 5139.
16868 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
16869 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
16870 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
16871 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
16872 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
16873 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
16874 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16876 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
16877 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
16878 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
16879 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
16880 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
16881 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
16882 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
16883 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
16884 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
16885 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
16886 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
16887 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
16888 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
16889 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
16890 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
16891 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
16892 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
16893 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
16894 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
16895 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
16897 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16898 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
16899 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
16900 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
16901 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
16902 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
16903 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
16904 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
16905 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
16906 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
16907 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
16908 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
16909 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
16911 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
16912 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16913 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
16914 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
16916 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
16917 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
16918 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16919 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
16920 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
16921 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16922 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
16923 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16924 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
16925 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
16927 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
16928 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
16929 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
16931 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16932 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
16933 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
16934 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
16935 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
16936 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
16937 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
16938 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
16939 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16940 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
16941 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
16942 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16943 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
16944 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
16945 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
16946 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16947 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
16948 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
16949 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
16950 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
16952 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
16953 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
16954 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16955 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
16956 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
16957 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
16959 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
16960 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
16961 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
16963 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
16964 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
16965 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
16966 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
16967 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
16968 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
16970 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
16971 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
16972 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
16974 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
16975 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
16976 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16977 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
16978 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
16979 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16980 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
16981 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
16982 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
16983 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16984 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
16985 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
16986 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
16987 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
16988 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
16989 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
16991 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
16992 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
16993 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16994 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
16995 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
16996 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16997 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
16998 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16999 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
17000 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17001 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
17002 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
17003 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
17006 o Documentation fixes:
17007 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
17008 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
17009 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
17010 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
17011 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
17012 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
17015 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
17016 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
17020 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
17021 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
17022 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
17023 and fixes several crash bugs.
17025 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
17026 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
17027 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
17028 those packages and upgrade anyway.
17030 o Directory authority changes:
17031 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
17032 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
17036 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
17037 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
17038 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
17039 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
17040 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
17041 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
17042 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
17043 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
17044 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
17045 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
17046 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
17047 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
17048 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
17049 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
17050 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
17051 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
17052 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
17053 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
17054 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
17055 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
17056 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
17057 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
17058 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
17059 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
17060 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
17061 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
17062 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
17065 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
17066 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17067 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
17068 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
17070 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
17071 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
17073 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
17074 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
17075 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
17076 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
17077 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
17078 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
17079 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
17080 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
17083 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
17084 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
17085 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
17086 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
17087 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
17088 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
17089 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
17090 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
17091 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
17092 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
17093 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
17094 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
17095 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
17096 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
17097 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
17098 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
17099 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
17100 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
17101 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
17102 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
17103 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
17104 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
17105 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
17106 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
17107 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
17108 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
17109 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
17110 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
17111 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
17112 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
17113 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
17114 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
17115 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17116 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
17117 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17118 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
17119 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
17120 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
17121 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
17122 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17123 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
17124 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17125 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
17126 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
17127 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
17128 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17130 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
17131 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
17132 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
17133 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
17134 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
17135 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
17136 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
17137 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
17138 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
17139 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
17140 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17141 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
17142 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17143 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
17144 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
17147 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
17148 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
17149 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
17150 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
17152 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17155 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
17156 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
17157 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
17158 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
17159 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
17160 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
17161 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
17164 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
17165 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
17166 the development branch build on Windows again.
17168 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17169 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
17170 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
17171 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
17172 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
17173 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
17174 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
17175 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
17176 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
17177 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
17178 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
17179 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
17180 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17181 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
17182 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
17184 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17185 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
17186 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
17187 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17188 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
17189 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
17190 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
17191 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
17192 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
17193 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
17194 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
17195 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17198 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
17199 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
17200 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
17201 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
17202 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
17203 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
17204 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
17205 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
17206 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
17208 o Removed features:
17209 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
17210 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
17211 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
17212 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
17216 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
17217 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
17218 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
17219 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
17221 o Directory authority changes:
17222 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
17226 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
17227 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17228 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
17229 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
17231 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
17232 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
17233 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
17234 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
17235 documents entirely.
17236 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
17237 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
17238 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17240 o Major features (performance):
17241 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
17242 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
17243 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
17244 much faster than other AES implementations.
17246 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
17247 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
17248 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
17249 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
17250 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
17251 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
17252 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
17253 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
17254 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
17255 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
17256 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
17257 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
17258 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
17259 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
17260 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17261 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
17262 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
17263 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17265 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
17266 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
17267 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
17268 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17269 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
17270 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17271 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
17272 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
17273 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
17275 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
17276 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
17277 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17278 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
17279 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
17280 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17283 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
17284 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
17285 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
17286 please let us know about it.
17287 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
17288 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
17289 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
17290 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
17291 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17292 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17293 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
17294 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
17296 o Default torrc changes:
17297 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
17298 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
17300 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
17301 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
17302 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
17305 o Removed features:
17306 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
17307 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
17308 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
17309 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
17311 o Code refactoring:
17312 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
17313 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
17314 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
17315 it would be a bad idea to start.
17318 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
17319 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
17320 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
17321 that get us closer to a release candidate.
17323 o Directory authority changes:
17324 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
17327 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
17328 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
17329 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
17330 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
17331 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
17332 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
17333 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
17334 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
17335 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
17336 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
17337 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
17338 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
17339 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
17340 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
17341 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
17342 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
17344 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
17345 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
17346 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
17347 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
17348 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
17349 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17350 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
17351 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
17352 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17353 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
17354 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
17355 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
17357 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
17358 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
17359 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17360 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
17361 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
17363 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17364 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
17365 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
17366 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
17367 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
17368 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
17369 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
17370 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
17371 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
17372 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
17373 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
17374 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
17375 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17376 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
17377 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17378 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
17379 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
17380 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
17381 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
17382 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
17383 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
17384 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
17387 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17388 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
17389 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17390 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
17391 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
17392 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
17393 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
17394 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
17395 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17396 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
17397 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
17398 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
17399 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
17400 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
17401 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
17402 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
17403 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
17406 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
17407 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
17408 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17411 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
17412 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
17413 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
17414 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
17417 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
17418 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
17420 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
17421 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
17422 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
17423 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17424 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
17425 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
17426 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
17427 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17428 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
17429 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
17430 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
17431 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17434 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
17435 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
17436 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
17437 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
17438 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
17439 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
17440 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17443 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
17444 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
17445 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
17446 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17447 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
17448 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
17449 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
17450 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
17451 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
17452 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
17454 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
17455 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
17456 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
17457 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
17458 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17459 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
17460 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
17461 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
17462 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
17465 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17466 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
17467 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
17471 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
17472 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
17473 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
17474 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
17475 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
17476 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
17479 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
17480 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
17481 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
17482 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
17483 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
17484 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
17485 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
17486 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
17488 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
17489 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
17490 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
17491 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
17492 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
17493 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
17494 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
17495 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
17497 o Major security workaround:
17498 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
17499 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
17500 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
17501 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
17502 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
17503 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
17504 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
17505 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
17506 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
17507 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
17508 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
17511 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
17512 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
17513 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
17514 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
17515 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
17516 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
17517 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
17518 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17519 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
17520 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
17521 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
17522 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
17523 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
17525 o Minor features (controller):
17526 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
17527 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
17528 file. Resolves bug 1101.
17529 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
17530 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
17531 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
17532 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
17533 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
17534 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
17536 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
17537 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
17538 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
17539 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
17540 part of ticket 3457.
17541 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
17542 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
17543 circuit-status' control-port command.
17545 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17546 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
17547 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
17548 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
17549 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
17551 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
17552 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
17553 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
17554 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
17555 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
17556 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
17557 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
17559 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
17560 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
17562 o Minor features (other):
17563 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
17564 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
17565 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
17566 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
17567 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
17568 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
17569 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
17570 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
17572 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
17573 them from the other auths.
17574 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
17575 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
17576 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
17577 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
17578 the 0.2.3.x series.
17579 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17581 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17582 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
17583 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
17584 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
17585 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
17586 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
17587 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
17588 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
17589 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
17590 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
17591 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17592 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
17593 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
17594 be disabled using the new
17595 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
17596 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17597 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
17598 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
17599 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
17600 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
17601 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
17602 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
17603 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
17604 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
17605 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
17606 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
17608 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
17609 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
17610 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
17613 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
17614 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
17615 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
17617 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
17618 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
17619 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
17620 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
17621 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17622 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
17623 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17625 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
17626 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
17627 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
17628 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
17629 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
17630 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
17631 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
17632 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
17634 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
17635 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
17636 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17637 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
17638 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
17639 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
17640 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
17641 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
17642 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
17645 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17646 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
17647 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
17648 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
17649 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
17650 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
17651 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
17652 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
17653 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
17654 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
17655 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
17656 accidentally been reverted.
17657 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
17658 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
17659 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
17660 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
17661 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
17662 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
17663 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17664 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
17665 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
17666 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17667 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
17668 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
17669 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
17670 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
17671 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17672 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
17673 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17674 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
17675 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17678 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
17679 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
17680 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
17681 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
17682 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
17683 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
17684 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
17686 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17687 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
17688 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
17689 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
17690 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
17691 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
17692 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
17694 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
17695 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
17696 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
17697 invalid value, rather than just -1.
17698 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
17699 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
17700 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
17701 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
17702 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
17703 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
17704 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
17708 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
17709 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
17710 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
17712 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
17713 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
17714 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
17715 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
17716 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
17717 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
17718 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
17719 (which Tor does not do by default).
17721 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
17722 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
17723 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
17724 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
17725 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
17727 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
17731 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
17732 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
17733 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
17734 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
17737 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
17738 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
17739 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
17740 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
17741 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
17742 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
17743 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
17744 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
17745 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
17746 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
17747 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17750 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17753 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
17754 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
17755 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
17757 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
17758 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
17759 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
17760 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
17761 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
17762 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
17763 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
17764 (which Tor does not do by default).
17766 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
17767 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
17768 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
17769 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
17770 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
17772 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
17773 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
17774 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
17777 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
17778 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
17779 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
17780 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
17781 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
17783 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
17784 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
17787 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
17788 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
17789 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
17790 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
17791 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
17792 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
17793 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
17794 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
17796 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
17797 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
17798 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
17799 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
17800 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
17801 close based on processing a cell on it.
17802 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
17803 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
17804 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
17805 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17806 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
17807 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
17808 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17809 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
17810 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
17811 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
17812 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
17813 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
17814 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
17815 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
17816 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
17819 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
17820 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
17821 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
17822 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
17823 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
17824 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
17825 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
17827 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
17828 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
17829 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
17830 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
17831 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
17832 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17833 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
17834 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
17835 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17836 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
17837 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
17838 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
17839 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
17840 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17841 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
17842 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
17843 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
17844 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
17845 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17846 Reported by "troll_un".
17847 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
17848 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17849 Reported by "troll_un".
17850 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
17851 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
17852 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
17853 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
17856 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
17857 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
17858 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
17859 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
17860 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
17861 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
17862 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
17863 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
17864 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
17865 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
17866 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17868 o Packaging changes:
17869 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
17870 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
17873 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
17874 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
17875 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
17876 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
17877 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
17879 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
17880 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
17882 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
17883 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
17884 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
17885 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
17886 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17887 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
17888 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
17889 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
17890 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
17893 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17896 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
17897 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
17898 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
17899 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
17900 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
17901 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
17902 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
17905 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
17906 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
17907 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
17908 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
17909 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
17910 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
17911 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
17912 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
17913 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
17914 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
17915 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
17916 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
17917 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
17918 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
17919 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
17920 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
17921 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
17922 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
17923 Resolves ticket 4526.
17924 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
17925 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
17926 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
17927 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
17928 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
17929 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
17930 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
17931 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
17932 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
17933 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
17934 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
17935 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
17936 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
17937 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
17938 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
17939 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
17942 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
17943 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
17944 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
17945 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
17946 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
17947 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
17948 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
17949 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
17950 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
17951 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
17953 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
17954 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
17955 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
17956 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
17957 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
17958 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
17959 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
17960 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
17961 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
17963 o Minor features (new/different config options):
17964 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
17965 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
17966 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
17967 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
17968 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
17969 Implements issue 933.
17970 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
17971 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
17972 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
17973 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
17974 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
17975 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
17976 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
17977 appending to the list.
17978 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
17979 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
17980 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
17981 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
17983 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
17984 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
17985 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
17986 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
17987 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
17988 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
17989 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
17990 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
17993 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
17994 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
17995 Resolves ticket 2474.
17996 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
17997 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
17998 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
17999 Required by fix for bug 3460.
18000 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
18001 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
18002 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
18003 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
18004 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
18005 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
18006 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
18007 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
18008 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
18010 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18011 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
18012 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
18014 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
18016 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
18017 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
18019 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
18020 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
18021 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
18022 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
18023 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
18024 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
18025 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
18027 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
18028 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
18029 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18030 Reported by "troll_un".
18031 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
18032 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18033 Reported by "troll_un".
18034 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
18035 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
18036 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
18037 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
18039 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
18040 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
18042 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
18043 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
18044 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
18045 with help from wanoskarnet.
18046 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
18047 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18050 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
18051 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
18052 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
18053 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18055 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
18056 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
18057 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
18058 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
18059 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
18060 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
18061 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
18062 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
18065 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
18066 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
18067 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
18068 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
18069 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
18070 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
18071 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
18072 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
18073 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
18076 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
18077 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
18078 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
18079 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
18081 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
18082 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
18083 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
18084 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18085 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
18086 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
18087 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
18088 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
18089 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
18090 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
18091 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
18092 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
18093 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
18094 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
18095 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
18096 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
18097 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
18098 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
18099 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
18100 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
18101 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
18102 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
18103 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
18104 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
18107 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
18108 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
18109 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
18110 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
18111 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
18112 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18113 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
18114 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
18117 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18118 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
18119 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
18120 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
18121 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
18122 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
18123 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
18124 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
18125 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
18126 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
18127 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
18128 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
18129 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
18130 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
18131 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
18133 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
18134 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
18135 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
18136 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
18137 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18138 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
18139 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
18140 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18141 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
18142 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
18143 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
18144 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
18145 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
18146 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18147 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
18148 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
18149 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18151 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18152 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
18153 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
18154 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
18155 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18156 Found by frosty_un.
18157 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
18158 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
18159 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
18161 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
18162 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
18163 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
18165 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
18166 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
18168 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
18169 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18172 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
18173 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
18174 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
18175 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
18176 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
18177 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
18178 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
18179 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
18180 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
18181 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
18182 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
18183 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
18184 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
18185 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
18187 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
18188 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
18189 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18191 o Packaging changes:
18192 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
18193 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
18195 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18196 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
18197 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
18198 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
18199 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
18200 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
18201 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
18202 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
18203 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
18206 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
18208 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
18209 ./src/test/bench binary.
18210 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
18211 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
18214 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
18215 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
18216 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
18220 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
18221 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
18222 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
18223 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
18224 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
18225 close based on processing a cell on it.
18226 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
18227 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
18228 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18229 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
18230 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
18231 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
18232 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
18233 cells were introduced.
18236 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
18237 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
18240 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
18241 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
18242 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
18243 users. Everybody should upgrade.
18245 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
18246 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
18249 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
18250 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
18251 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
18252 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
18253 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
18254 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
18256 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
18257 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
18258 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
18259 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
18260 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
18261 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
18262 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
18263 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
18264 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
18265 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
18266 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
18267 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
18268 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
18269 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
18270 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
18271 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
18272 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
18273 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
18276 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18277 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
18278 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
18279 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
18280 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
18281 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
18282 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
18283 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
18284 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
18285 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
18286 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
18287 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
18288 Partly fixes bug 3825.
18289 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
18290 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
18291 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
18292 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
18293 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
18294 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
18295 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
18297 o Major bugfixes (other):
18298 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
18299 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
18300 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
18301 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18302 Found by "frosty_un".
18303 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
18304 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
18305 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
18306 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
18307 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
18308 immensely in tracking this bug down.
18309 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
18310 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
18313 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18314 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
18315 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
18316 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
18317 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
18318 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
18319 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
18320 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
18321 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
18322 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
18323 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
18324 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
18325 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
18326 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18327 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
18328 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
18329 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
18330 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
18331 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
18332 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
18333 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
18335 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18336 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
18337 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
18338 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18339 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
18340 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
18341 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
18342 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
18343 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
18344 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
18345 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
18348 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
18349 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
18350 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
18351 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
18352 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
18353 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
18354 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
18355 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
18356 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
18357 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
18358 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
18359 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
18360 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
18361 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18363 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18364 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
18365 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
18366 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
18367 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
18368 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
18369 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
18370 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
18373 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
18374 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
18375 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
18377 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
18378 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
18379 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
18380 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
18381 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
18382 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
18383 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
18384 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
18385 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
18386 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
18387 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
18388 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
18389 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
18391 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
18392 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
18393 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
18394 currently connected to them.
18396 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
18397 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
18398 remain; see for example proposal 188.
18400 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
18401 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
18402 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
18403 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
18404 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
18405 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
18406 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
18407 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
18408 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
18409 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
18410 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
18411 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
18412 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
18413 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
18414 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
18415 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
18416 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
18417 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
18420 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
18421 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
18422 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
18423 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
18424 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
18425 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
18426 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
18427 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
18428 when bridges were introduced.
18429 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
18430 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
18431 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
18432 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18433 Found by "frosty_un".
18436 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
18437 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
18439 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
18440 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
18441 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
18442 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
18443 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
18444 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
18445 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
18448 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
18449 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
18450 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
18451 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
18452 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
18453 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
18454 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
18455 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
18456 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
18457 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
18458 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
18459 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
18460 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
18461 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
18462 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
18463 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
18464 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
18465 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
18467 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
18468 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
18469 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
18470 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18471 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
18472 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
18473 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
18474 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
18475 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
18476 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
18477 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
18478 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18481 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
18482 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
18483 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
18484 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18487 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
18488 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
18489 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
18490 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
18491 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
18493 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18494 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
18495 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
18496 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
18497 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
18498 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
18499 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
18500 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
18501 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
18502 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18504 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18505 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
18506 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
18507 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
18508 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
18509 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
18510 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
18511 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
18512 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
18513 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
18514 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
18515 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
18516 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
18517 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
18518 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18519 Found by "frosty_un".
18520 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
18521 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
18522 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
18523 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
18524 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
18525 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
18526 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
18527 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
18528 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18529 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
18530 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
18531 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
18532 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18533 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
18534 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
18535 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
18536 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
18537 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
18538 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
18540 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18541 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
18542 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
18543 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
18544 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
18545 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
18546 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
18547 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
18549 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
18550 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
18551 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
18552 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
18553 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
18554 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
18555 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
18556 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
18557 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
18558 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
18559 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
18560 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
18562 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
18563 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18564 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
18565 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18566 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
18567 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18568 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
18569 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
18570 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
18572 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
18574 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
18575 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
18576 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
18577 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18578 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
18579 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
18580 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
18581 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18583 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
18584 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
18585 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
18586 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
18587 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
18589 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18590 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
18591 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
18592 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
18593 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18596 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
18597 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
18598 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
18599 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
18600 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
18603 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
18604 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
18605 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
18606 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
18607 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
18608 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
18609 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
18610 when bridges were introduced.
18613 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
18614 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
18615 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18617 o Major features (networking):
18618 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
18619 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
18620 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
18621 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
18622 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
18626 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
18627 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
18628 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
18630 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
18631 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
18632 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
18633 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
18634 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18636 o Minor features (diagnostics):
18637 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
18638 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
18641 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
18642 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
18643 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
18644 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
18645 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
18646 listed in the network consensus and republish.
18648 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
18649 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
18650 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
18651 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18653 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
18654 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
18655 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
18656 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
18657 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
18658 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
18659 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
18660 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
18661 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
18662 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
18663 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
18665 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
18666 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
18667 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
18668 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
18669 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
18670 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
18671 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
18672 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
18673 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
18674 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18676 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
18677 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
18678 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
18679 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
18680 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
18681 fixes part of bug 2442.
18682 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
18683 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
18684 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
18686 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
18687 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
18688 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
18689 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
18690 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18692 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
18693 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
18694 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
18695 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
18696 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
18699 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
18700 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
18701 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
18705 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
18706 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
18707 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
18708 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
18709 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
18710 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
18711 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
18714 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
18715 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
18716 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
18717 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
18718 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
18719 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
18720 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
18723 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
18724 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
18725 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
18726 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
18727 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
18728 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18729 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
18730 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
18731 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18733 o Code refactoring:
18734 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
18735 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
18738 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
18739 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
18740 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
18741 reachable from Iran again.
18744 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
18745 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
18746 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18748 o Minor features (security):
18749 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
18750 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
18751 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
18752 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
18753 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
18754 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
18755 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
18756 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
18757 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
18758 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
18761 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
18762 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
18763 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
18764 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
18765 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
18766 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
18767 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
18768 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
18769 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18771 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
18772 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
18773 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
18774 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
18775 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
18776 raised by bug 3898.
18777 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
18778 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
18779 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
18780 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
18781 fixes part of bug 2442.
18782 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
18783 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
18784 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
18786 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
18787 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
18788 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
18789 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
18790 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18793 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
18794 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18795 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
18796 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
18797 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
18798 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
18801 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
18802 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
18803 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
18804 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
18805 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
18806 bufferevent-based networking backend.
18808 o Major features (stream isolation):
18809 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
18810 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
18811 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
18812 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
18813 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
18814 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
18815 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
18816 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
18817 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
18818 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
18819 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
18820 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
18821 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
18822 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
18824 o Major features (other):
18825 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
18826 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
18827 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
18828 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
18829 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
18830 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
18831 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
18832 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
18833 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
18834 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
18835 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
18836 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
18837 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
18839 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
18840 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
18842 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
18843 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
18844 Fixes part of bug 3752.
18845 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
18846 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
18847 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
18848 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
18849 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
18850 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
18851 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
18852 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
18853 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
18854 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
18855 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
18856 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
18857 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
18858 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
18859 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
18860 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
18861 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
18863 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
18864 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
18865 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
18866 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
18867 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
18868 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
18871 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
18872 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
18873 user. Implements ticket 1692.
18874 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
18875 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
18876 best copy data out of a buffer.
18877 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
18878 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
18879 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
18881 o Minor features (build compatibility):
18882 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
18883 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
18884 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18886 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
18887 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18889 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
18890 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
18891 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18892 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
18893 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
18894 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
18895 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18897 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
18898 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
18899 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
18900 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
18901 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
18902 raised by bug 3898.
18903 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
18904 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
18905 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
18908 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
18909 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
18910 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
18911 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
18912 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
18913 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
18914 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
18915 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
18916 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
18917 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
18918 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
18919 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18920 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
18921 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
18922 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
18923 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
18924 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
18925 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
18926 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
18929 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18930 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
18931 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
18935 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
18936 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
18937 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
18938 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
18939 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
18940 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
18943 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
18944 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
18945 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
18946 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
18947 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
18948 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
18949 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
18950 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
18951 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
18952 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
18954 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
18955 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
18956 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
18957 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
18958 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
18959 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
18960 many many other features and bugfixes.
18963 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
18964 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
18965 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
18968 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
18969 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
18970 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
18971 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
18972 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
18973 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
18974 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
18975 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
18978 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18981 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
18982 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
18983 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18984 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
18985 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
18986 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
18987 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
18988 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
18989 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
18990 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
18991 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
18992 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
18993 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
18994 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18995 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
18996 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
18997 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
18998 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
19002 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
19003 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
19004 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
19005 up a variety of recently introduced features.
19008 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
19009 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
19010 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
19011 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
19012 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
19013 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
19014 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
19015 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
19016 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
19017 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
19018 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
19019 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
19020 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
19021 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
19022 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
19023 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
19025 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
19026 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
19027 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
19028 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
19029 order. Fixes bug 2798.
19030 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
19031 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
19032 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
19033 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
19034 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
19035 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
19039 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
19040 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
19041 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
19042 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
19044 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
19045 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
19046 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
19047 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
19048 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
19049 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
19050 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
19051 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
19052 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
19053 Implements ticket 3264.
19054 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
19055 implements ticket 3439.
19057 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
19058 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
19059 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
19060 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
19061 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
19062 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
19063 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
19064 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
19065 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
19066 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
19067 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
19068 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
19069 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
19070 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
19071 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
19072 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
19073 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
19074 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
19075 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
19076 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
19077 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
19078 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
19079 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
19080 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
19081 fails. Spotted by coverity.
19082 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
19083 present. Found by coverity.
19084 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
19085 a directory cache that provides them.
19087 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19088 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
19089 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
19090 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
19091 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
19092 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
19094 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
19095 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
19096 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19097 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
19098 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
19099 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19100 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
19101 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
19103 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19104 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
19105 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
19106 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
19107 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
19108 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
19109 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
19111 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
19115 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
19116 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
19117 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
19120 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
19121 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
19122 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
19123 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
19126 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
19127 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
19128 discovered by katmagic.
19129 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
19130 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
19131 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
19132 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19133 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
19134 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
19135 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
19136 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19137 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
19138 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
19139 fixes part of bug 3465.
19140 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
19141 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
19145 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19148 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
19149 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
19150 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
19151 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
19152 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
19155 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
19156 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
19157 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
19158 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
19159 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
19162 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
19163 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
19164 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
19165 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
19166 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
19167 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
19170 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
19171 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
19172 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
19173 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19174 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
19175 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
19176 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
19177 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
19178 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
19179 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
19180 fixes part of bug 3407.
19181 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
19182 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
19183 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
19184 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
19185 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
19186 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
19187 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
19188 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
19189 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
19190 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
19192 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
19193 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
19194 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
19195 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
19198 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19200 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19201 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
19202 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
19204 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
19206 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
19209 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
19210 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
19211 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
19212 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
19213 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
19214 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
19218 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
19219 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
19220 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
19221 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19222 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
19223 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
19224 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
19226 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
19227 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19228 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
19229 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
19230 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
19231 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
19232 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
19233 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
19234 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
19235 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
19236 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
19237 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
19238 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
19239 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
19240 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
19241 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
19242 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
19243 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
19244 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
19248 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
19249 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
19250 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
19251 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
19252 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
19253 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
19254 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
19255 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
19256 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
19260 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
19261 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
19262 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
19264 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
19266 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
19267 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
19268 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
19269 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
19270 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19271 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
19272 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
19273 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
19274 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
19276 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
19277 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
19278 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
19279 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
19280 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
19281 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
19283 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
19284 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
19286 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
19287 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
19288 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19291 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
19292 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
19293 Resolves ticket 3252.
19294 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
19295 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
19296 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
19297 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
19298 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
19299 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
19302 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
19303 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
19306 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
19307 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
19308 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
19311 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
19312 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19313 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
19314 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
19315 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
19318 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
19319 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19320 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
19321 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
19322 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
19323 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
19324 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
19325 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
19326 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
19330 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
19331 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
19332 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
19333 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
19334 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
19336 o Security/privacy fixes:
19337 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
19338 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
19339 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
19340 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
19341 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
19342 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
19343 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
19344 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
19345 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
19346 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
19347 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
19348 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
19349 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
19350 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
19351 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19354 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
19355 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
19356 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
19357 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
19358 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
19359 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
19360 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
19361 part of ticket 3076.
19362 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
19363 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
19364 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
19368 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
19369 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
19370 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
19371 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
19372 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
19373 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
19374 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
19375 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
19377 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
19378 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
19379 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
19380 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
19381 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
19382 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
19383 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
19384 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
19385 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
19386 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
19387 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
19388 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
19389 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19392 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
19393 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
19394 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
19395 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
19396 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
19397 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
19398 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
19400 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
19401 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
19402 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
19403 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
19404 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
19405 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
19406 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
19407 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
19408 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
19409 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
19410 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
19411 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
19412 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
19413 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
19414 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
19415 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
19417 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
19418 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
19420 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
19421 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
19423 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
19424 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
19426 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
19427 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
19428 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19430 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
19431 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
19432 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
19433 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
19434 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19435 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
19436 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
19437 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
19438 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
19439 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
19440 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
19442 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
19443 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
19444 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
19445 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
19446 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
19447 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
19448 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
19449 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
19450 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
19451 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
19452 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19453 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
19454 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
19457 o Removed features:
19458 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
19459 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
19460 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
19464 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
19465 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
19466 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
19467 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
19468 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
19469 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
19471 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
19472 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
19473 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
19476 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
19477 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
19478 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
19479 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
19480 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
19481 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
19482 zero-copy transports where available.
19483 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
19484 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
19485 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
19486 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
19487 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
19488 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
19489 debug it as it breaks.
19490 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
19491 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
19492 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
19493 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
19494 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
19495 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
19496 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
19497 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
19498 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
19499 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
19500 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
19501 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
19502 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
19503 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
19504 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
19505 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
19506 PortForwarding option.
19507 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
19508 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
19509 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
19510 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
19511 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
19512 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
19513 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
19516 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
19517 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
19518 Implements enhancement 1668.
19519 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
19521 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
19522 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
19523 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
19524 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
19525 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
19526 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
19527 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
19529 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
19530 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
19531 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
19532 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
19533 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
19534 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
19535 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
19537 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
19538 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
19539 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
19540 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
19541 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
19542 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
19543 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
19545 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
19546 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
19547 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
19548 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
19549 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19550 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
19551 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
19552 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
19553 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
19554 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
19555 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
19556 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
19557 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
19558 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
19559 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
19562 o Minor features (controller):
19563 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
19564 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
19565 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
19566 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
19567 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
19568 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
19569 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
19572 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
19573 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
19574 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
19575 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
19576 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
19577 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
19578 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
19579 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
19581 o Minor packaging issues:
19582 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
19583 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
19585 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19586 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
19587 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
19588 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
19589 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
19590 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
19591 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
19592 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
19593 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
19594 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
19595 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
19596 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
19597 our library structure used to force them to link it.
19599 o Removed features:
19600 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
19601 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
19602 are no longer in use as servers.
19604 o Documentation fixes:
19605 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
19606 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
19607 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
19611 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
19612 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
19613 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
19614 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
19615 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
19616 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
19617 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
19618 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
19619 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
19620 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
19623 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
19624 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
19625 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
19626 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
19627 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
19628 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
19629 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
19630 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
19631 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
19632 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19633 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
19634 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
19635 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19636 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
19637 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
19638 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
19640 o Security and stability fixes:
19641 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
19642 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
19643 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
19644 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
19645 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
19646 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
19647 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
19648 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
19649 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
19650 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
19651 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
19652 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
19653 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19654 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
19655 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
19656 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19659 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
19660 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
19661 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
19662 contributions to the network.
19664 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
19665 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
19666 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
19667 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
19668 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
19669 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
19670 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
19671 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
19672 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
19673 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
19674 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
19675 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
19676 connections to directory servers.
19677 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
19678 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
19679 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
19680 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
19681 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
19682 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
19683 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
19684 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
19685 information, or fetch directory information.
19686 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
19687 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
19688 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
19689 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
19690 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
19691 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
19692 unless you really want your Tor to break.
19693 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
19694 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
19695 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
19696 - When StrictNodes is 1:
19697 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
19698 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
19699 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
19700 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
19701 reachability self-tests.
19702 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
19703 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
19704 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
19705 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
19706 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19707 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
19708 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
19710 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
19711 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19712 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
19713 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
19714 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
19715 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19716 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
19717 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
19718 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
19719 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
19720 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
19723 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
19724 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
19725 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
19726 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
19727 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
19728 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
19729 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
19730 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
19731 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
19732 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
19733 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
19734 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19735 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
19736 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
19737 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
19738 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
19739 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
19741 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
19742 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
19743 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
19744 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
19745 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19746 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
19747 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19748 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
19749 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
19750 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
19751 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
19752 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
19753 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
19754 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
19755 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
19756 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19757 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
19758 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
19759 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
19760 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
19763 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
19764 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
19765 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
19766 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
19767 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
19768 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
19769 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
19770 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
19771 Required by fix for bug 3000.
19772 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
19773 by fix for bug 3000.
19774 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
19775 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
19777 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19778 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
19779 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
19780 send a body too). Since only server versions before
19781 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
19782 keep the workaround in place.
19783 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
19784 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
19785 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
19786 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
19787 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
19788 want to do it differently.
19789 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
19790 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
19791 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
19792 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
19793 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
19797 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
19798 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
19799 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
19800 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
19801 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
19804 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
19805 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
19806 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
19807 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
19808 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
19810 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
19811 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
19812 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
19813 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
19814 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
19815 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
19816 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
19817 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
19818 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
19819 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
19820 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
19821 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
19824 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
19825 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
19826 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
19827 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
19828 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
19829 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
19830 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
19832 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
19833 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
19834 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
19835 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
19836 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
19837 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
19838 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
19839 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
19840 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
19841 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
19842 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
19843 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
19844 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
19845 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
19846 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
19847 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
19848 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
19849 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
19850 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
19851 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
19852 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
19853 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
19854 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19857 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
19858 networkstatus vote.
19859 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
19860 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
19861 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
19863 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
19864 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
19865 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
19866 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
19868 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
19869 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
19870 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
19871 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19874 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
19875 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
19877 o Documentation changes:
19878 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
19879 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
19881 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
19884 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
19885 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
19886 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
19887 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
19888 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
19889 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
19892 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
19893 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
19894 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
19895 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
19896 the rest of bug 1074.
19897 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
19898 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
19899 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19900 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
19901 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
19902 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
19903 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19904 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
19905 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
19906 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
19907 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
19908 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
19909 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
19910 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19913 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
19914 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
19915 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
19916 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
19917 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
19918 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
19919 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
19920 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
19921 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
19922 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
19923 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
19924 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
19925 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
19926 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
19928 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
19929 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
19930 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
19931 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
19932 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
19933 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
19935 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
19936 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
19937 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
19938 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
19939 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
19940 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
19941 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
19942 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
19943 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
19944 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19945 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
19946 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
19947 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
19948 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
19949 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
19950 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
19951 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
19952 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
19953 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
19954 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
19955 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
19956 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
19957 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
19958 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19959 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
19960 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
19962 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
19963 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
19964 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
19965 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
19966 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
19967 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
19969 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
19970 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
19971 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
19973 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
19974 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
19975 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
19976 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
19977 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
19978 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
19979 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
19980 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
19981 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
19982 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
19983 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
19984 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
19985 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
19989 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
19990 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
19991 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
19992 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
19993 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
19994 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
19995 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
19996 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
19997 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
19998 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
19999 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
20000 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
20002 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20004 o Minor features (log subsystem):
20005 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
20006 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
20007 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
20009 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
20010 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
20012 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
20013 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
20014 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
20017 o Packaging changes:
20018 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
20019 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
20020 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
20023 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
20024 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
20025 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
20026 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
20027 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
20028 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
20031 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
20032 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
20033 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
20034 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
20035 the rest of bug 1074.
20036 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
20037 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20038 Found by "piebeer".
20039 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
20040 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
20041 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
20042 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
20043 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
20044 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
20045 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20048 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
20050 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20053 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
20054 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
20055 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
20056 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
20057 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
20058 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
20059 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
20060 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
20061 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
20062 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
20063 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20065 o Packaging changes:
20066 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
20067 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
20068 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
20069 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
20070 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
20071 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
20074 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
20075 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
20076 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
20077 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
20078 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
20079 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
20082 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
20083 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20084 Found by "piebeer".
20085 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
20086 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
20087 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
20088 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
20091 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
20093 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
20094 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
20095 Implements ticket 2432.
20098 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
20099 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
20100 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
20103 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
20104 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
20105 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
20106 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
20107 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
20108 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
20110 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
20111 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
20112 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
20113 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
20115 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
20116 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
20117 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
20118 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
20119 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
20120 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
20121 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
20122 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
20124 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
20125 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
20126 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
20127 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
20128 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
20129 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
20130 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
20131 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
20132 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
20133 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
20134 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
20135 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
20136 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
20137 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
20140 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
20141 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
20142 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
20143 bug reported by doorss.
20144 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
20145 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
20146 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20147 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
20148 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
20150 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
20151 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
20152 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
20153 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
20154 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20156 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
20157 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20158 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
20160 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
20161 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
20162 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
20163 Automake 1.7 or later.
20164 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
20165 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
20166 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
20167 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
20169 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
20170 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
20171 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
20174 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
20175 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
20176 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
20177 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
20179 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
20180 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
20181 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
20182 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
20183 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
20184 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
20185 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
20186 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
20187 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
20189 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
20190 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
20191 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
20194 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
20195 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
20196 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
20197 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
20198 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
20199 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
20200 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
20201 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
20202 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
20203 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
20204 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
20205 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
20206 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
20208 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
20209 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
20213 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
20214 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
20215 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
20216 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
20217 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
20219 o Major bugfixes (security):
20220 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
20221 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
20222 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
20224 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
20225 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
20226 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
20227 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
20228 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
20229 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
20230 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
20231 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
20233 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20234 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
20235 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
20236 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
20237 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
20238 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
20239 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
20240 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
20241 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
20242 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
20243 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
20244 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
20245 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
20246 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
20249 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20250 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
20251 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
20252 bug reported by doorss.
20253 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
20254 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
20255 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20256 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
20257 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
20259 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
20260 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
20261 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
20262 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
20263 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20264 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
20265 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
20266 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
20267 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
20270 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20271 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
20274 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
20275 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
20276 Automake 1.7 or later.
20279 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
20280 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
20281 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
20282 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
20283 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
20286 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
20287 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
20288 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
20289 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
20290 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
20291 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
20292 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
20293 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
20294 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
20295 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
20296 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
20298 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
20299 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
20300 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
20301 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
20303 o Directory authority changes:
20304 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20307 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
20308 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
20309 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
20310 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
20311 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
20312 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20313 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
20314 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
20315 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
20318 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20319 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
20320 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
20321 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
20322 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
20323 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
20324 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
20325 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
20326 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
20327 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
20331 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
20332 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
20333 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
20334 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
20338 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
20339 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
20340 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
20341 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
20343 o Directory authority changes:
20344 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20347 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20350 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
20351 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
20352 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
20353 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
20354 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
20357 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
20358 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
20359 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
20360 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
20361 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20362 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
20363 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
20364 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
20365 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
20366 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20367 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
20368 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20369 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
20370 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
20371 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
20372 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
20373 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
20374 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
20375 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
20376 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
20377 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
20378 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
20379 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
20382 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
20383 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
20384 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
20385 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
20387 o New directory authorities:
20388 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
20392 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
20393 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
20394 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
20396 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
20397 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
20398 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
20399 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
20400 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
20401 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
20403 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
20404 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
20405 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
20408 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
20409 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
20410 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
20411 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
20412 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
20413 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
20414 Patch from mingw-san.
20417 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
20418 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
20419 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
20420 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
20421 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
20422 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
20425 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
20426 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
20427 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
20430 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
20431 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
20432 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
20433 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
20434 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20437 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
20438 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
20439 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
20440 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
20441 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
20442 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
20443 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
20444 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
20445 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
20448 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
20449 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
20450 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
20451 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
20452 to a stable release.
20455 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
20456 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
20457 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
20458 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
20459 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
20460 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
20461 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
20462 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
20463 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20464 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
20465 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20466 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
20467 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
20468 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
20469 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
20470 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
20471 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
20472 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
20473 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
20474 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
20475 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
20476 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
20477 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
20478 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
20479 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20480 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
20481 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
20482 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
20483 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
20484 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
20485 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
20488 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
20489 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
20490 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
20491 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
20492 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
20493 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
20494 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
20495 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
20496 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
20497 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
20498 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
20499 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
20500 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
20501 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20502 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
20503 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
20504 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
20506 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
20507 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
20508 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
20509 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
20510 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
20512 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
20513 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
20514 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
20515 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
20518 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
20519 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
20520 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
20521 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
20522 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
20523 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
20524 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
20525 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20527 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20528 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
20529 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
20530 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
20531 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
20532 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
20533 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
20534 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
20535 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
20536 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
20537 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
20538 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
20539 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
20540 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
20541 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
20544 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
20545 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
20546 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
20547 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
20548 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
20549 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
20550 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
20551 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
20552 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
20555 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
20556 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
20557 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
20558 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
20559 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
20561 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
20562 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
20563 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
20564 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
20565 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
20566 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
20567 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20568 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
20569 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
20570 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
20571 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
20572 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
20573 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
20574 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
20576 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
20577 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
20579 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
20580 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
20581 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
20582 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
20583 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
20584 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
20585 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
20586 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
20587 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20588 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
20589 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
20590 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
20591 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
20592 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
20593 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
20594 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
20595 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
20596 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20598 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
20599 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
20600 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
20601 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
20602 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
20603 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
20604 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
20605 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
20606 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
20607 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
20608 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
20609 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
20610 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
20612 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
20613 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
20614 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
20615 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20618 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
20619 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
20620 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
20621 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
20622 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
20623 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
20624 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
20625 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
20626 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
20627 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
20628 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
20629 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
20630 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
20631 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
20632 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
20633 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
20634 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
20635 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
20636 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
20639 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
20640 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
20641 based on the time during which we were active and not in
20642 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
20643 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
20644 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
20645 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
20646 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20648 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
20649 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
20650 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
20651 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
20652 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
20653 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
20654 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
20655 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
20656 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
20657 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20660 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
20661 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
20662 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
20663 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
20665 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
20666 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
20667 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
20668 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
20669 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
20670 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
20671 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
20672 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
20673 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
20674 the longest-lived bug prize.
20675 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
20676 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
20677 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
20678 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
20679 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
20680 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
20682 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
20683 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
20684 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
20685 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
20686 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
20687 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
20691 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20692 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
20693 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
20694 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
20695 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
20696 got suppressed since the last warning.
20697 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
20698 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
20699 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
20700 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
20701 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
20702 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
20703 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
20704 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
20705 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
20706 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
20707 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
20708 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
20709 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
20710 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
20711 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
20712 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
20713 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
20714 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
20715 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
20717 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
20718 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
20719 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
20721 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
20722 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
20723 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
20724 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
20725 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
20726 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
20727 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
20728 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
20729 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
20730 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
20731 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
20732 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
20733 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
20734 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
20735 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
20737 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
20738 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
20739 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
20740 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
20741 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
20742 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20743 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
20745 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
20746 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
20747 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
20748 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
20749 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
20752 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
20753 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
20754 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
20755 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
20756 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
20757 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
20758 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
20759 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
20760 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
20761 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
20762 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
20763 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
20764 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
20765 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
20766 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
20767 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
20768 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
20769 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
20772 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
20775 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
20776 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
20777 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
20778 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
20779 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
20783 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
20784 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
20785 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
20786 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
20787 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
20788 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
20789 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
20790 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
20791 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
20792 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
20793 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
20794 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
20795 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
20796 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
20797 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
20798 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
20799 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
20802 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
20803 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
20804 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
20805 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
20806 they first get the Guard flag.
20807 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
20811 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20812 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
20813 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
20814 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
20815 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
20816 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
20817 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
20818 Patch from mingw-san.
20819 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
20820 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
20822 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
20823 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
20824 Implements enhancement 1790.
20826 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
20827 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
20828 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
20829 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
20830 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
20831 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
20832 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
20833 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
20834 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
20835 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
20836 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
20837 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
20838 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20839 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
20840 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
20841 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
20842 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
20843 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
20844 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
20845 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
20847 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
20848 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
20849 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
20850 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
20851 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
20852 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
20853 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
20854 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
20855 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
20856 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
20857 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
20858 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
20859 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
20861 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
20862 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
20863 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
20864 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
20865 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
20866 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20868 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
20869 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
20870 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
20871 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
20872 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20873 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
20874 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
20875 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20876 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
20877 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
20878 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
20879 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
20881 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
20882 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
20883 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
20884 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
20885 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
20886 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
20887 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
20889 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
20891 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
20892 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20893 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
20894 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
20895 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
20896 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
20898 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20899 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
20900 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
20901 structures and defines in or.h for now.
20902 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
20903 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
20904 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
20905 statistics code to be more easily tested.
20906 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
20907 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
20908 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
20911 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
20912 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
20913 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
20914 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
20915 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
20916 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
20920 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
20921 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
20922 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
20923 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
20924 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
20925 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
20926 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
20927 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
20928 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
20929 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
20930 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
20931 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
20932 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
20934 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
20935 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
20936 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
20937 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
20938 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
20939 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
20940 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
20941 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
20942 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
20943 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
20944 can be controlled by the consensus.
20947 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
20948 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
20949 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
20950 more accurate data for many African countries.
20951 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
20952 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
20953 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
20954 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
20955 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
20956 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
20957 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
20958 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
20959 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
20960 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
20961 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
20962 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
20964 o New directory authorities:
20965 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
20969 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
20970 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
20971 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
20972 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
20973 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
20974 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
20975 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
20976 what should go in a patch.
20977 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
20978 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
20979 over our stored history.
20980 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
20981 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
20982 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
20983 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
20984 file. Fixes bug 1296.
20985 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
20986 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
20987 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
20991 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
20993 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
20994 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
20995 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
20996 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
20997 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
20998 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
20999 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
21000 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
21001 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
21002 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
21003 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
21004 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21005 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
21006 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
21007 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
21008 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
21009 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
21010 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
21011 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
21012 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
21013 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
21014 two-hop circuits are actually created.
21015 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
21016 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21017 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
21018 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21021 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
21022 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
21023 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
21024 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
21025 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
21027 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
21028 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
21031 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
21032 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
21033 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
21034 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
21035 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
21036 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
21037 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
21038 their directory fetches over TLS).
21039 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
21040 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
21041 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
21042 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
21043 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
21044 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
21045 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
21046 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
21049 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
21050 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
21054 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
21055 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21056 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
21057 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
21058 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
21059 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
21060 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21063 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
21064 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
21065 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
21066 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
21067 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
21070 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
21071 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
21072 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
21073 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
21074 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
21075 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
21076 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
21077 their directory fetches over TLS).
21080 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
21081 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
21083 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
21084 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
21085 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
21086 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
21087 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
21088 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
21089 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
21090 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
21091 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
21092 hour of their uptime.
21095 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
21096 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
21097 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
21101 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
21102 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
21103 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
21104 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
21105 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
21106 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
21108 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
21109 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
21110 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
21112 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
21113 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
21117 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
21118 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
21119 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
21123 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
21124 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
21125 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
21128 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
21129 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
21130 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
21131 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
21132 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
21133 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
21134 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
21135 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
21136 about the option without breaking older ones.
21137 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
21138 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
21139 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
21140 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
21143 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
21144 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
21145 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
21146 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
21148 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
21149 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
21150 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
21153 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
21154 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
21156 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
21157 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
21158 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
21159 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
21160 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
21161 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
21162 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21163 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
21164 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
21165 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
21166 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
21169 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
21170 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21171 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
21172 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
21173 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
21174 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
21175 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21178 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
21179 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
21180 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
21181 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
21182 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
21183 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
21186 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
21187 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
21188 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
21189 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
21191 o Major features (performance):
21192 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
21193 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
21194 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
21195 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
21196 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
21197 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
21198 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
21200 o Minor features (performance):
21201 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
21202 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
21203 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
21204 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
21205 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
21209 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
21210 speeds up the build considerably.
21212 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
21213 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
21214 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21215 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
21216 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21217 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
21218 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
21219 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21221 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
21222 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
21223 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
21225 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
21226 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
21227 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
21228 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
21230 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21231 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
21232 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
21233 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
21234 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
21235 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
21238 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
21239 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
21240 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
21242 o Directory authority changes:
21243 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
21244 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
21245 service directory authority) from the list.
21248 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
21249 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
21250 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
21251 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
21252 libraries in a security patch.
21253 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
21254 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
21255 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
21256 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
21258 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
21259 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
21260 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
21261 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
21262 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
21263 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
21264 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
21267 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
21268 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
21269 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
21270 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
21271 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
21272 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
21273 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
21274 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
21275 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
21276 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
21277 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
21278 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
21279 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
21281 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
21282 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
21283 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
21284 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
21285 control-spec.txt said they were.
21286 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
21287 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
21288 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
21289 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
21290 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21292 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21293 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
21294 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
21295 produce nicer HTML.
21296 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
21297 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
21298 iPhone SDK versions.
21299 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
21300 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
21301 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
21302 projects directory in svn.
21303 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
21304 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
21305 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
21306 high latency links.
21309 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
21310 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
21311 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
21313 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
21314 to the circuit build timeout.
21315 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
21316 arguments we do not recognize.
21317 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
21318 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
21319 open() without checking it.
21322 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
21323 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
21324 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
21325 several minor potential security bugs.
21328 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
21329 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
21330 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
21331 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
21332 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
21333 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
21334 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
21337 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
21338 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
21340 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
21341 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
21342 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
21343 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
21347 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
21348 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
21352 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
21353 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
21354 customized patches to run/build.
21357 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
21358 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
21359 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
21362 o Major bugfixes (performance):
21363 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
21364 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
21365 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
21366 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
21367 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
21368 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
21369 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
21372 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
21373 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
21374 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
21375 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
21376 libraries in a security patch.
21377 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
21378 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
21379 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
21380 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
21383 o Directory authority changes:
21384 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
21385 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
21386 service directory authority) from the list.
21389 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
21390 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
21393 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
21394 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
21395 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
21396 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
21397 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
21400 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
21401 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
21402 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
21406 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
21407 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
21408 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
21409 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
21410 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21413 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
21414 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
21415 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
21419 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
21420 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
21421 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
21422 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
21423 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
21425 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
21426 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
21428 o Directory authority changes:
21429 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
21432 o Major features (performance):
21433 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
21434 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
21435 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
21436 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
21437 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
21438 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
21439 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
21440 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
21441 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
21442 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
21443 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
21444 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
21445 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
21447 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
21448 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
21449 but never per-conn write limits.
21450 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
21451 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
21452 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
21453 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
21455 o Major features (relay selection options):
21456 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
21457 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
21458 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
21459 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
21460 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
21461 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
21462 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
21464 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
21465 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
21467 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
21468 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
21469 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
21470 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
21471 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
21472 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
21473 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
21474 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
21475 the network changes.
21478 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
21479 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
21480 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21483 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
21484 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
21485 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
21486 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
21487 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
21488 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
21489 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
21490 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
21491 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
21492 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
21493 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
21494 generated while acting as a relay.
21495 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
21496 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
21497 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
21498 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
21499 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
21500 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
21502 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
21503 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
21504 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21505 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
21506 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
21507 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
21510 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
21511 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
21512 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
21514 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
21515 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
21516 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
21518 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
21519 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
21521 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
21522 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
21523 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
21525 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
21526 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
21529 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21530 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
21531 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21532 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
21533 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
21534 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
21535 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
21536 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
21537 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
21539 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
21542 o Removed features:
21543 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
21544 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
21545 hidden service usage.
21548 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
21549 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
21550 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
21551 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
21552 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
21554 o Directory authority changes:
21555 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
21559 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
21560 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
21561 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21564 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
21565 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
21566 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
21567 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
21568 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
21571 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
21572 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
21573 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
21574 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
21575 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
21576 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
21577 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
21580 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
21581 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
21582 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21583 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
21584 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
21585 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
21587 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
21588 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
21591 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
21592 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
21593 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
21594 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
21595 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
21596 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
21599 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
21600 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
21601 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
21603 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
21604 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
21605 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
21606 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
21607 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
21608 download consensus + microdescriptors".
21609 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
21610 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
21611 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
21612 hash algorithm in the future.
21613 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
21614 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
21615 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
21616 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
21617 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
21618 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
21619 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
21620 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
21621 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
21624 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
21625 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
21626 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
21627 won't work unless we say we are.
21630 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
21631 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
21632 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
21633 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
21634 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
21635 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
21636 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
21637 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
21638 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21639 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
21640 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
21641 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
21642 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
21643 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
21644 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
21645 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
21646 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
21647 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
21648 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
21649 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
21650 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
21651 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
21654 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
21655 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
21656 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
21657 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
21659 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
21660 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
21662 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
21663 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
21664 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
21665 in the Vidalia Settings window.
21668 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
21669 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
21670 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
21671 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
21672 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
21674 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
21675 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
21677 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
21678 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
21679 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
21682 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
21683 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
21684 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
21686 o New directory authorities:
21687 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
21689 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
21692 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
21693 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
21695 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
21696 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
21697 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21698 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
21699 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
21700 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
21701 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21702 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21703 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
21704 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
21705 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
21706 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
21707 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
21708 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
21709 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
21710 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
21711 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
21713 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
21714 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
21715 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
21717 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
21718 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
21722 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
21723 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
21724 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
21725 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
21726 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
21729 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
21730 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
21733 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
21735 o Directory authorities:
21736 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
21740 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
21741 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
21742 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
21743 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
21744 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
21747 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
21748 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
21749 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
21750 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
21752 o New directory authorities:
21753 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
21756 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
21757 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
21758 SSL handshake issues.
21759 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
21760 during the TLS handshake.
21761 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
21762 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
21763 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
21764 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
21765 none of which are very big.
21768 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
21770 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
21771 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21772 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
21773 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
21774 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21775 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
21776 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
21777 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
21780 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21781 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
21782 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
21783 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
21784 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
21787 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
21788 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21791 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
21792 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
21795 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
21796 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
21797 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21800 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
21801 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
21802 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
21803 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
21804 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
21805 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
21808 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
21809 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
21810 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
21811 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
21812 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
21813 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
21814 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
21815 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
21816 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
21817 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
21818 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
21819 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
21820 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
21821 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
21822 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
21823 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
21824 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
21825 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
21828 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
21829 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
21833 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
21834 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
21835 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21836 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
21837 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
21838 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
21839 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21840 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
21841 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
21842 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
21843 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21844 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21845 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
21846 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
21847 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
21848 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
21849 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
21850 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
21851 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
21852 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
21853 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
21855 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
21856 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
21857 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
21858 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21859 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
21860 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
21862 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
21863 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
21864 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
21867 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
21868 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
21869 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
21870 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
21871 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
21872 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
21875 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
21876 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
21877 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
21878 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
21879 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
21882 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
21883 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
21884 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
21887 o New directory authorities:
21888 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
21892 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
21893 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
21894 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
21895 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
21896 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
21899 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
21900 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
21901 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
21902 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
21903 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
21906 o New options for gathering stats safely:
21907 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
21908 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
21909 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
21910 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
21911 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
21912 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
21913 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
21914 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21915 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
21917 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
21918 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
21919 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21920 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
21922 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
21923 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
21924 their extra-info documents.
21927 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
21928 source files Tor was built with.
21929 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
21930 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
21931 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
21932 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
21933 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
21934 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
21936 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
21937 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
21938 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
21939 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
21940 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
21942 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
21943 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
21946 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
21947 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
21948 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
21949 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
21950 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
21952 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
21953 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
21955 o Deprecated and removed features:
21956 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
21957 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
21958 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
21959 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
21960 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
21961 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
21962 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
21963 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
21965 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
21966 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
21967 via application-level web tricks.
21969 o Packaging changes:
21970 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
21971 installer bundles. See
21972 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
21973 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
21974 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
21975 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
21976 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
21977 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
21978 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
21979 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
21980 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
21981 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
21982 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
21983 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
21986 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
21987 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
21988 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
21991 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
21992 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
21993 part of patch provided by "optimist".
21996 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
21997 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
21998 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
21999 and confuse fewer users.
22002 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
22003 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
22004 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
22005 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
22006 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
22007 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
22008 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
22011 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
22012 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
22013 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
22014 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
22015 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
22016 other features and bug fixes.
22019 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
22022 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
22023 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
22024 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
22025 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
22026 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
22029 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
22030 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
22031 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
22032 failure message (oops).
22035 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
22036 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
22037 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
22038 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
22042 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
22043 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
22044 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
22045 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
22046 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
22047 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
22048 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22049 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
22050 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
22051 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
22052 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
22053 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
22054 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
22055 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
22056 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
22059 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
22060 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
22061 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
22062 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
22063 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
22064 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
22065 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
22066 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
22067 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
22068 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
22069 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
22070 Workaround for bug 1024.
22071 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
22075 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
22076 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
22077 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
22080 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
22082 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
22083 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
22084 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
22085 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
22086 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22089 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
22090 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
22091 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
22092 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
22093 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
22094 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
22095 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
22096 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
22097 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
22098 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
22101 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
22102 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
22103 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
22104 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
22105 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
22106 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
22107 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
22108 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
22111 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
22112 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
22113 a bunch of minor bugs.
22116 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
22117 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
22118 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22120 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
22121 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
22122 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
22123 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
22125 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
22129 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
22130 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
22131 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
22133 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
22134 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
22136 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
22137 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
22139 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
22140 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
22141 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
22142 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
22143 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
22144 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
22145 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
22146 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
22148 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
22149 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
22150 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
22152 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
22153 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
22154 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
22155 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
22156 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
22160 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
22161 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
22162 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
22163 of more minor bugs.
22165 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
22166 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
22167 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
22168 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
22170 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
22171 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
22172 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
22173 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22174 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
22175 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
22176 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
22177 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
22178 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
22179 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
22180 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
22181 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22182 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
22183 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
22184 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
22185 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
22186 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
22188 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
22189 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
22190 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
22191 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22193 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
22194 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
22195 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
22198 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
22199 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
22200 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
22201 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
22202 addresses to fall out of the directory.
22205 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
22206 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
22207 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
22208 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
22210 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
22211 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
22212 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
22213 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
22214 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
22215 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
22216 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
22217 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
22218 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
22219 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
22220 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
22221 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
22222 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
22223 patch by Sebastian.
22224 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
22225 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
22228 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
22229 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
22230 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
22231 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
22232 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
22233 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
22235 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
22236 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
22237 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
22238 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
22239 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
22241 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
22244 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
22245 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
22247 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
22248 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
22249 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22250 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22251 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
22252 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
22254 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
22255 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22256 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
22257 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
22258 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
22259 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22260 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
22261 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
22262 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
22263 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
22264 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
22265 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
22269 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
22270 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
22271 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
22274 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
22275 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
22276 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22278 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
22279 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
22280 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
22281 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
22282 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
22283 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
22284 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
22285 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
22286 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
22287 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
22288 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
22289 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22290 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
22291 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
22292 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22293 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
22294 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
22295 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
22296 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
22297 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
22298 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
22299 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
22300 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
22301 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
22302 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
22303 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
22305 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
22306 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
22307 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
22308 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
22309 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
22310 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
22311 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
22312 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
22313 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
22314 of 0. Suggested by lark.
22316 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
22317 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
22318 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
22319 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
22320 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
22323 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
22325 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
22326 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
22327 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
22328 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
22331 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
22332 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
22333 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
22334 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
22335 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
22337 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
22338 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
22339 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
22340 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22343 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
22344 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22345 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
22346 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
22347 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
22348 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
22349 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
22350 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
22353 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
22354 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
22355 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
22356 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
22359 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
22360 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
22361 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
22362 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
22363 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
22364 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
22367 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
22368 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22369 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
22370 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
22371 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
22372 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22375 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
22376 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
22377 reported by Matt Edman.
22378 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
22380 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
22381 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
22382 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
22383 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
22385 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
22386 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22387 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
22388 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22389 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
22390 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
22391 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
22392 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
22393 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
22394 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
22395 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
22396 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
22397 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
22398 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22399 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
22400 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22401 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
22402 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
22403 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22406 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
22407 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
22408 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
22409 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
22412 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
22413 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
22414 the letter of C99's alias rules.
22417 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
22418 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
22419 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
22420 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
22422 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
22423 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
22424 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
22427 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
22428 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
22431 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
22432 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
22433 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
22434 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
22435 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
22436 reported by "wood".
22437 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
22438 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
22439 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
22440 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
22441 identify a connection.
22442 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
22443 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
22444 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
22445 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
22446 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
22447 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
22448 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22449 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
22450 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
22451 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
22453 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
22454 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
22455 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
22456 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
22457 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
22458 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
22459 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
22462 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
22463 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
22465 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
22466 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
22467 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
22468 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
22469 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
22470 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
22471 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22472 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
22474 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
22475 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
22476 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
22477 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
22478 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
22479 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
22480 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
22481 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
22482 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
22483 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
22484 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
22485 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
22486 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
22487 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
22488 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22489 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
22490 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
22491 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22492 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
22493 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
22494 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
22495 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
22496 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
22497 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
22498 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
22499 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
22500 840. Patch from rovv.
22501 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
22502 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
22503 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
22505 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
22506 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
22507 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
22508 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
22509 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
22510 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
22511 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
22513 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22514 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
22515 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
22518 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
22519 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
22521 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
22522 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
22523 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
22524 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
22525 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
22526 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
22527 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
22528 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
22529 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
22531 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
22533 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
22534 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
22538 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
22539 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
22540 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
22541 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
22542 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
22543 have had some time to upgrade.)
22546 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
22547 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
22550 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
22551 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
22552 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
22553 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
22554 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
22557 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
22558 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
22560 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
22561 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22562 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
22563 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
22564 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
22565 entirely. Patch from coderman.
22568 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
22569 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22570 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
22571 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
22572 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
22573 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22574 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
22578 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
22579 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
22580 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
22581 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
22582 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
22583 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
22584 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
22587 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
22588 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
22589 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
22590 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
22591 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
22593 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
22594 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
22595 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
22596 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
22597 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
22598 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
22599 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22600 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
22601 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
22602 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
22606 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
22607 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
22608 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
22610 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
22611 without support for deprecated functions.
22612 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
22614 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
22615 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
22616 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
22617 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
22618 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22619 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
22620 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
22621 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
22622 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
22623 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
22624 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
22625 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
22626 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
22627 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
22628 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
22629 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
22630 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
22631 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
22632 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
22633 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
22634 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
22635 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
22636 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
22638 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
22639 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
22640 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
22641 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
22642 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
22643 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
22645 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
22646 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
22647 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
22648 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
22649 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
22651 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
22652 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
22653 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
22655 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
22656 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
22659 o Deprecated and removed features:
22660 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
22661 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
22662 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
22665 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22666 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
22667 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
22668 with log.h on Android.
22669 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
22670 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
22673 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
22674 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
22676 o New directory authorities:
22677 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
22681 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
22682 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
22683 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
22684 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
22685 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
22686 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22689 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
22690 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
22691 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
22692 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
22693 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
22694 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
22695 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
22696 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
22697 reported by "wood".
22698 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
22699 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
22700 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
22701 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
22704 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
22705 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
22707 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
22708 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
22709 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
22710 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
22711 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
22712 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
22713 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
22714 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
22715 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
22716 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
22717 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
22718 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
22719 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
22720 Implements proposal 148.
22721 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
22722 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
22723 system to do it for us.
22724 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
22725 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
22726 this fix will be slightly helpful.
22727 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
22728 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
22729 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
22730 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
22731 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
22732 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
22733 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
22734 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
22735 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
22738 o Minor features (controller):
22739 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
22740 been fetched and validated.
22741 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
22742 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
22743 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
22744 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
22745 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
22746 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
22749 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
22750 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22751 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
22752 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
22753 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
22755 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
22756 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
22757 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22758 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
22759 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
22760 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22761 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
22762 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
22763 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
22765 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22766 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
22767 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
22768 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
22769 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
22770 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
22771 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
22772 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
22774 o Deprecated and removed features:
22775 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
22777 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
22778 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
22779 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
22781 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22782 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
22783 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
22785 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
22786 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
22787 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
22788 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
22789 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
22790 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
22793 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
22794 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
22795 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
22796 fixes a variety of other issues.
22799 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
22800 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
22801 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
22802 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
22805 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
22806 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
22807 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
22808 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22811 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
22812 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22813 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
22817 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
22819 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
22820 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
22821 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
22822 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
22823 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
22824 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
22825 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
22827 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
22828 rest, and don't automatically fail.
22829 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
22830 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22831 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
22832 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
22834 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
22835 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
22836 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
22837 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
22838 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
22839 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
22840 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
22841 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
22842 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
22843 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
22845 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
22849 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
22850 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
22851 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
22853 o Minor features (controller):
22854 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
22858 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
22859 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
22860 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
22861 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
22862 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
22863 variety of other issues.
22866 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
22867 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
22868 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
22869 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
22870 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
22871 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
22872 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
22873 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
22874 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
22875 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
22876 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
22877 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
22880 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
22881 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22883 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22884 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
22885 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
22886 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
22887 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
22888 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
22889 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22890 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
22891 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
22892 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
22893 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
22894 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
22895 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
22896 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
22897 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
22901 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
22902 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
22903 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
22904 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
22905 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
22906 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
22907 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
22908 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
22909 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
22910 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
22911 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
22912 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
22913 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
22914 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
22915 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
22916 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
22917 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
22918 list. It has been gone for many months.
22919 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
22920 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
22921 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
22924 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22925 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
22926 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
22929 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
22930 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
22931 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
22932 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
22933 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
22934 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
22935 variety of other issues.
22938 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
22939 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
22940 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
22941 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
22942 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
22943 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
22944 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
22945 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
22946 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
22947 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
22948 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
22949 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
22950 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
22951 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
22954 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
22955 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
22956 Suggested by Lucky Green.
22957 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
22958 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
22959 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
22960 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
22961 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
22962 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
22964 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
22965 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
22967 o Hidden service performance improvements:
22968 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
22969 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
22970 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
22971 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
22972 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
22973 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
22974 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
22975 faster after restart.
22978 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
22979 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
22980 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
22981 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
22982 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
22983 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
22984 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
22985 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
22986 840. Patch from rovv.
22987 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
22988 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
22989 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
22990 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
22991 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
22992 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
22993 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
22994 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
22995 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
22997 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
22998 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
22999 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
23000 have already been marked for close.
23001 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
23002 introduction points.
23003 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
23004 memory performance during directory parsing.
23005 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
23006 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
23007 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
23008 because of a pending download.
23011 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
23012 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
23013 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
23014 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23017 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
23018 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
23019 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
23020 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
23021 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
23022 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
23023 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
23024 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
23025 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
23026 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
23027 lookups more reliable.
23028 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
23029 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
23030 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
23031 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
23032 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
23033 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
23034 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23037 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
23038 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
23039 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23040 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
23041 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
23042 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
23043 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
23044 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
23045 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
23046 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
23047 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
23049 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
23050 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
23051 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
23052 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
23053 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
23054 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23055 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
23056 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
23057 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23060 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
23061 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
23062 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
23063 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
23064 locked down these days.
23065 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
23066 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
23067 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
23068 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
23069 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
23071 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
23072 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
23073 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
23074 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
23075 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
23076 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
23077 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
23078 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
23079 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
23080 people find host:port too confusing.
23081 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
23082 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23083 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
23086 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23088 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
23089 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
23090 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
23091 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
23092 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
23094 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
23095 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
23096 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
23097 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
23098 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
23099 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
23100 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
23101 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
23102 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
23103 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
23104 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
23105 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
23107 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
23108 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
23109 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
23110 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
23111 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
23112 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
23113 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23114 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
23115 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
23117 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
23118 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
23119 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
23120 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
23121 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
23122 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23123 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
23124 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
23125 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
23126 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
23127 bug 820, reported by seeess.
23128 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
23129 list. It has been gone for many months.
23131 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23132 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
23133 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
23134 actual mistakes we're making here.
23135 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
23136 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
23137 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
23138 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
23141 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
23142 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
23143 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
23144 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23147 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
23148 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
23149 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
23150 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
23151 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
23152 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
23154 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
23155 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
23156 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
23157 pointed out by rovv.
23160 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
23161 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23162 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
23163 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23164 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
23165 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
23166 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
23167 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
23168 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
23169 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23170 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
23171 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
23172 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
23173 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23174 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
23175 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
23176 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
23177 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
23178 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
23179 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
23180 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
23183 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
23184 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
23185 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
23186 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
23187 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
23188 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
23189 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23192 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
23194 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
23195 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
23196 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
23197 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
23198 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
23199 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
23200 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
23202 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
23203 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
23204 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
23205 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
23206 known descriptor before building circuits.
23208 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
23209 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
23210 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
23211 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
23212 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
23213 identify a connection.
23214 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
23215 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
23216 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
23218 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
23219 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
23220 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
23221 pointed out by rovv.
23224 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
23225 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23226 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
23227 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
23228 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
23229 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23230 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
23231 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23232 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
23233 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
23234 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
23235 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
23236 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
23237 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
23238 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23241 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
23242 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
23243 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
23244 answer sections match.
23245 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
23246 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
23249 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
23250 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23253 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
23254 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
23255 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
23257 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
23258 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
23259 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23262 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
23263 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
23264 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
23265 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
23268 o Removed features:
23269 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
23270 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
23273 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
23274 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
23275 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
23276 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
23277 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
23278 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
23280 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
23281 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
23282 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
23285 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
23286 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
23287 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
23288 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
23289 be sent using an "early" cell.
23292 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
23293 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
23294 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
23295 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
23296 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
23297 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
23298 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
23301 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
23302 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
23303 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
23304 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
23305 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
23306 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
23307 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
23308 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
23309 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
23310 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
23311 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
23312 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
23313 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
23314 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
23315 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
23316 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
23319 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
23320 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
23321 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
23322 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
23323 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
23324 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
23325 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
23326 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
23327 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
23329 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
23330 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
23331 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
23332 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
23333 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
23336 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23337 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
23338 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
23339 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
23341 o Removed features:
23342 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
23343 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
23347 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
23349 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
23350 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
23351 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
23354 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
23355 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
23356 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
23359 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
23360 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
23361 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
23362 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
23363 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23364 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
23365 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
23366 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
23367 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23368 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
23369 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
23370 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
23371 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
23372 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
23373 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
23374 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
23375 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
23376 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
23377 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
23378 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
23379 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
23380 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
23381 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
23384 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
23385 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
23387 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
23388 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
23389 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
23390 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
23391 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
23392 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
23393 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
23395 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
23396 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
23397 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
23398 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
23399 found by Geoff Goodell.
23402 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
23403 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
23404 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
23405 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
23406 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
23407 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
23410 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
23411 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
23412 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
23415 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
23416 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
23417 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
23418 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
23419 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23420 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
23421 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
23422 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
23423 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23424 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
23425 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
23426 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
23427 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
23428 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
23431 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
23432 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
23433 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
23435 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
23436 fingerprints with or without space.
23437 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
23438 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
23439 partway through and wants to catch up.
23440 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
23441 state to start out in.
23444 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
23445 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
23446 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23447 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
23448 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
23451 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
23452 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
23453 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
23454 some of the connection attempts fail.
23455 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
23456 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
23457 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
23458 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
23459 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
23460 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
23462 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
23463 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
23464 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
23467 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
23468 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
23469 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
23470 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
23471 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
23472 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
23473 and adds a variety of smaller features.
23476 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
23477 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
23478 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
23479 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
23481 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
23482 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
23483 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
23484 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
23486 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
23487 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
23488 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
23489 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
23490 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
23491 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
23492 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
23495 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
23496 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
23497 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
23498 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
23499 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
23501 o Memory fixes and improvements:
23502 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
23503 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
23504 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
23505 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
23506 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
23507 on a typical directory cache.
23508 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
23509 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
23510 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
23511 and may reduce fragmentation.
23512 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
23513 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
23514 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
23516 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
23517 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
23518 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
23520 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
23521 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
23525 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
23526 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
23527 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
23528 done that for a long time.
23529 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
23530 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
23531 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
23532 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
23535 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
23536 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
23537 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
23538 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
23539 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
23540 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
23542 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
23543 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
23544 output to messages of warning and error severity.
23545 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
23546 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
23547 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
23548 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
23549 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
23550 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
23551 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
23552 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
23553 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
23554 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
23555 directory requests we should expect to see.
23556 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
23558 - Lots of new unit tests.
23559 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
23560 two parallel lists in lockstep.
23563 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
23564 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
23565 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
23568 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
23569 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
23570 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
23571 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
23572 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
23573 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
23574 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
23577 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
23578 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
23579 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
23583 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
23584 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
23585 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
23588 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
23589 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
23590 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
23592 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
23593 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
23595 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
23596 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
23597 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
23598 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
23599 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23600 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
23601 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
23603 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
23604 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
23605 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
23606 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
23607 - Fix compile on Windows.
23610 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
23611 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
23612 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
23613 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
23614 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
23615 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
23616 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
23619 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
23620 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
23623 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
23624 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
23625 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
23626 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
23628 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
23629 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
23630 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
23633 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
23634 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
23635 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
23636 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
23640 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
23641 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
23642 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
23643 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
23645 o Major security fixes:
23646 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
23647 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
23648 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
23649 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
23650 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
23653 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
23654 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23657 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
23658 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
23661 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
23662 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
23665 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
23666 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
23667 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
23670 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
23671 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23674 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
23675 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
23676 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
23677 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
23678 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
23680 o New directory authorities:
23681 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
23682 it has been down for months.
23683 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
23687 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
23688 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
23690 o Minor features (security):
23691 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
23692 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
23693 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
23696 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
23697 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
23698 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
23699 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
23700 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
23701 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
23702 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
23703 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
23704 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23706 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
23707 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
23708 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23709 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
23710 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
23711 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
23712 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23713 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
23714 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
23716 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23717 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
23718 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
23719 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
23720 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
23721 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
23722 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
23723 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
23724 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
23725 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
23726 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23727 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
23728 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
23729 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
23730 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
23731 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
23732 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
23733 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
23734 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
23737 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
23738 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
23739 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
23740 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
23743 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
23744 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
23745 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
23746 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
23749 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
23750 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
23751 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
23752 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
23753 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
23756 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
23757 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
23758 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
23759 certain censored countries by default again.
23762 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
23763 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23764 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
23765 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
23766 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23767 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
23768 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
23769 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
23771 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
23772 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
23773 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
23774 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
23775 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
23776 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
23777 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
23778 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
23779 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
23780 a directory. Fix from lodger.
23782 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23783 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
23784 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
23785 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
23786 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
23787 RelayBandwidth* values.
23788 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
23789 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
23790 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
23791 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
23792 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
23793 get_interface_address6().
23794 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
23795 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
23796 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
23798 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
23799 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
23800 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
23801 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23802 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
23803 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
23804 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23805 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
23806 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
23807 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23810 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
23811 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
23812 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
23815 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
23816 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
23817 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
23818 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
23819 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
23822 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
23823 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
23824 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
23825 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
23826 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
23827 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
23828 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
23829 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
23830 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
23833 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
23834 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
23835 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
23836 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23839 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
23840 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
23841 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
23842 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
23843 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
23844 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
23845 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
23848 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
23849 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
23850 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
23851 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
23852 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
23853 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
23854 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
23856 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
23857 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
23858 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
23859 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
23860 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
23863 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
23864 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
23865 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
23866 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
23867 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
23868 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
23869 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23870 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
23871 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
23872 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
23873 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
23874 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
23875 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
23876 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
23877 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
23878 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23879 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
23880 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23881 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23882 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
23883 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
23884 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
23885 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
23886 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
23887 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
23888 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
23890 o Minor features (performance):
23891 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
23893 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
23894 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
23895 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
23896 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
23897 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
23898 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
23899 non-system include paths.
23900 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
23901 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
23904 o Minor features (other):
23905 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
23907 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
23908 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
23909 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
23912 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
23913 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
23914 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
23915 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
23917 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
23918 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
23919 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
23920 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
23921 Should fix bug 537.
23922 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
23923 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
23924 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23925 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
23926 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23928 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23929 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
23930 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
23931 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
23932 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
23933 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
23934 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
23935 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
23936 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
23937 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
23938 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
23939 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
23940 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
23941 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
23942 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
23943 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23944 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
23945 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
23946 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
23947 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
23948 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
23949 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
23950 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
23951 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
23952 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
23955 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23956 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
23957 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
23961 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
23962 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
23963 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
23964 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
23965 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
23968 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
23969 Tor's x509 certificates.
23972 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
23973 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
23974 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23975 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
23976 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
23977 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23979 o Minor features (security):
23980 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
23981 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
23983 o Minor features (directory authority):
23984 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
23985 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
23986 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
23987 bandwidthburst values.
23989 o Minor features (controller):
23990 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
23991 processes from running us out of memory.
23993 o Minor features (misc):
23994 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
23995 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
23996 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
23997 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
23999 o Deprecated features (controller):
24000 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
24001 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
24002 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
24005 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
24006 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
24008 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
24009 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
24010 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24011 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
24012 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
24013 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24014 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
24015 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
24017 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
24018 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24019 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
24020 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24021 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
24022 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
24023 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
24024 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
24026 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
24027 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
24028 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
24029 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
24030 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24031 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
24032 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24033 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
24034 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24035 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
24036 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
24037 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24039 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24040 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
24042 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
24043 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
24044 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
24045 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
24046 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
24047 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
24050 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
24051 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
24052 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
24053 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
24054 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
24056 o New directory authorities:
24057 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
24061 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
24062 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
24063 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
24064 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
24065 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
24066 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
24067 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
24068 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
24072 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
24073 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
24074 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
24075 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
24076 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
24077 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
24078 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
24079 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
24080 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
24081 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
24084 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
24085 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
24086 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
24087 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
24091 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
24092 the request isn't encrypted.
24093 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
24094 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
24095 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
24096 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
24097 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
24100 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
24101 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
24104 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
24107 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
24108 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
24109 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
24111 o New directory authorities:
24112 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
24115 o Major performance improvements:
24116 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
24117 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
24118 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
24119 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
24120 memory fragmentation.
24123 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
24124 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
24125 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
24126 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
24127 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
24128 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
24129 bodies when they receive them.
24130 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
24131 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
24132 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
24134 o Minor performance improvements:
24135 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
24136 of them were actually distinct.
24137 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
24138 interested in a given message.
24141 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
24142 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
24143 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
24144 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
24145 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
24146 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
24147 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
24148 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
24149 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
24150 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
24151 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
24153 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
24154 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
24155 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
24156 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
24157 this country" and "1 person from this country".
24158 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
24159 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
24160 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
24161 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
24162 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
24164 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
24165 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
24166 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
24168 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
24169 but client versions are not.
24170 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
24171 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
24173 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
24174 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
24175 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
24176 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
24177 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
24179 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
24180 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
24181 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
24184 o Minor features (controller):
24185 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
24186 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
24187 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
24188 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
24190 o Minor features (directory authorities):
24191 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
24192 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
24193 running a test network on a single host.
24194 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
24195 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
24197 o Minor features (bridges):
24198 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
24199 unencrypted connections.
24201 o Minor features (other):
24202 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
24203 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
24204 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
24205 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
24208 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
24209 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
24210 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
24211 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24214 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
24215 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
24216 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
24217 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
24218 on network address.
24221 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
24222 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
24223 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
24224 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
24225 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
24226 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
24227 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
24228 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
24229 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
24230 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
24231 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
24232 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
24235 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
24236 rebuild our server descriptor.
24237 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
24238 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
24239 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
24240 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
24241 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
24242 nonstandard integer types.
24243 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
24244 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
24245 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
24246 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
24247 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
24249 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
24250 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
24251 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
24252 when they receive them.
24253 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
24254 This includes some 64-bit systems.
24255 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
24256 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
24257 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
24258 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
24259 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
24260 router_get_by_hexdigest().
24261 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
24262 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
24266 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
24267 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
24268 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24271 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
24272 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
24273 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
24274 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
24275 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
24276 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
24277 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
24278 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24281 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
24282 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
24283 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
24284 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
24286 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
24287 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
24290 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
24291 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
24294 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
24296 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
24297 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
24299 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
24300 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
24301 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
24302 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24303 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
24304 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
24305 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
24306 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24307 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
24308 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
24312 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
24313 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
24314 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
24317 - Make the unit tests build again.
24318 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
24319 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
24320 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
24321 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
24322 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
24323 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24324 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
24325 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
24326 the next one as a duplicate.
24329 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
24330 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
24331 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
24332 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
24335 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
24336 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
24337 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
24340 o New directory authorities:
24341 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
24345 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
24346 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
24347 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
24348 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
24349 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
24350 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
24351 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
24353 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
24354 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
24356 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
24357 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
24358 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
24359 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
24360 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
24361 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
24363 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
24364 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
24365 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24366 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
24367 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
24368 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24371 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
24372 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
24373 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
24374 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
24375 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
24376 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
24377 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
24378 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
24379 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
24380 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
24381 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
24382 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
24383 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
24384 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
24385 where Tor is blocked.
24386 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
24387 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
24388 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
24389 to a file periodically.
24390 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
24391 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
24392 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
24396 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
24397 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
24398 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
24399 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
24400 in the relevant networkstatus document.
24401 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
24402 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
24403 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24404 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
24405 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
24406 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
24407 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
24408 by Karsten Loesing.
24409 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
24410 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
24411 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
24412 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
24413 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
24414 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24415 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
24416 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
24417 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
24418 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24419 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
24420 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
24421 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
24422 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24423 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
24424 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
24425 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
24426 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
24427 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
24428 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24429 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24430 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
24431 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24432 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
24433 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
24434 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24435 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
24436 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24439 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
24440 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
24441 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
24442 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
24443 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
24444 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
24445 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
24446 even if your DirPort isn't on.
24447 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
24448 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
24449 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
24451 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
24452 multiple controller passwords.
24453 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
24454 router based on the router's purpose.
24455 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
24456 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
24457 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
24458 the approved-routers file.
24461 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
24462 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
24463 well as a few minor bugs.
24466 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
24467 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
24468 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
24470 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
24471 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
24472 rebuild our server descriptor.
24474 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24475 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
24476 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
24477 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
24478 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
24479 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
24480 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
24481 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
24482 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
24483 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
24485 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
24486 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
24487 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
24488 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
24489 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
24490 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
24491 then be flexible about families.
24494 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
24495 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
24496 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
24500 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
24501 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
24502 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
24503 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
24504 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
24507 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
24508 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
24509 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
24510 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
24511 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24514 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
24515 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
24517 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
24518 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
24519 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
24520 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
24521 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
24522 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
24523 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24525 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
24526 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
24527 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
24528 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
24531 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
24532 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
24535 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
24536 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
24537 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24540 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
24541 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
24542 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
24543 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
24544 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
24545 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
24546 addresses many more minor issues.
24548 o New directory authorities:
24549 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
24552 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
24553 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
24554 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
24555 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
24557 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
24558 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
24559 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
24560 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
24561 and are reaching it.
24562 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
24563 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
24564 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
24565 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
24566 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
24567 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
24570 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
24571 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
24573 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
24574 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
24575 no longer work for clients.
24576 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
24577 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
24579 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
24580 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
24581 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
24582 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
24583 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
24584 enough directory information to build a circuit.
24585 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
24586 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
24587 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
24588 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
24589 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
24590 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
24592 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
24593 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
24594 requests for all of them.
24595 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
24597 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
24598 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
24599 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
24601 o New requirements:
24602 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
24603 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
24607 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
24608 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
24609 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
24610 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
24611 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
24612 networkstatuses that we already have.
24613 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
24614 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
24615 we start knowing some directory caches.
24616 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
24617 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
24618 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
24619 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
24620 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
24621 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
24622 Good in combination with --hash-password.
24623 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
24624 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
24626 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
24627 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
24628 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
24630 o Minor features (bridges):
24631 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
24632 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
24633 back to trying the bridge directly.
24634 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
24635 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
24637 o Minor features (controller):
24638 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
24639 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
24640 report the value as a "minimum skew."
24643 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
24644 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
24648 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
24649 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
24650 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
24651 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
24652 reported by tup and ioerror.
24653 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
24654 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
24656 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
24657 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
24659 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
24660 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
24661 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
24663 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
24664 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24665 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
24666 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24667 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
24668 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24669 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
24671 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
24672 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
24673 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24675 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
24676 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
24677 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
24678 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
24679 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
24682 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
24683 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
24684 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
24685 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
24686 lists for a few hours each day.
24688 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24689 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
24690 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
24691 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
24692 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
24693 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
24694 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
24695 rend_process_relay_cell().
24697 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24698 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
24699 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
24700 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
24701 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
24702 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
24703 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
24704 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
24706 o Major bugfixes (other):
24707 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
24708 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
24709 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
24710 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
24711 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
24712 circuit cannibalization).
24713 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
24714 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
24715 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
24716 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
24717 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
24718 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
24721 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
24722 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
24724 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
24725 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
24726 absent. Resolves bug 467.
24727 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
24728 a way to trigger this remotely.)
24729 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
24730 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
24731 were reporting the dir port.)
24732 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
24733 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
24734 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
24735 the future. Fixes bug 434.
24736 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
24738 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
24739 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
24740 the onion key from getting rotated.
24741 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
24742 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
24743 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
24744 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
24745 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
24746 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
24747 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24748 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
24749 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
24752 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
24753 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
24754 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
24755 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
24756 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
24757 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
24759 o Major features (directory system):
24760 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
24761 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
24762 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
24763 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
24764 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
24765 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
24766 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
24767 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
24768 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
24769 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
24770 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
24771 Partially implements proposal 122.
24772 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
24773 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
24776 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
24777 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
24778 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
24779 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
24781 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
24782 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
24783 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
24784 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
24785 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
24786 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24787 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
24788 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
24789 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24791 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
24792 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
24794 - Allow certificates to include an address.
24795 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
24796 and download operations.
24797 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
24798 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
24799 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
24800 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
24801 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
24802 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
24804 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
24805 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
24808 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
24809 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
24810 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
24811 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
24813 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
24814 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
24815 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
24817 o Minor features (performance):
24818 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
24819 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
24820 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
24821 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
24822 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
24823 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
24824 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
24827 o Minor features (compilation):
24828 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
24829 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
24831 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
24832 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
24833 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
24834 stick around indefinitely.
24835 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
24837 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
24838 v3 directory authority.
24839 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
24840 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
24842 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
24843 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
24844 "moria on moria:9031."
24845 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
24846 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
24847 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
24848 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
24849 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
24850 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
24851 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
24852 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
24854 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
24855 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
24856 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
24857 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
24858 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
24859 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
24860 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
24861 downloads than for other types.
24863 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
24864 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
24866 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
24867 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
24868 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24870 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24871 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
24872 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24873 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
24874 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
24875 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
24876 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
24877 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
24879 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24880 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
24881 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
24882 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
24883 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24884 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
24885 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
24886 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24887 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
24888 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
24889 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
24891 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
24892 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
24895 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24896 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
24897 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
24898 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
24899 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
24900 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
24901 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
24902 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
24903 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
24904 so that they all take the same named flags.
24907 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
24908 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
24909 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
24912 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
24913 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
24914 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
24915 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
24916 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
24917 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
24919 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
24920 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
24921 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
24922 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
24923 annotations along with descriptors.
24924 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
24925 source, and its purpose.
24926 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
24928 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
24929 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
24930 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
24931 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
24934 o Major features (directory authorities):
24935 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
24937 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
24938 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
24939 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
24940 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
24941 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
24942 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
24944 o Major features (v3 directory system):
24945 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
24946 and download the descriptors listed in them.
24947 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
24948 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
24949 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
24951 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24952 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
24953 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
24954 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
24957 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24958 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
24959 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
24960 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
24961 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
24963 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
24964 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
24965 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
24966 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
24967 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
24968 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
24970 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
24971 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
24973 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
24974 certificate is requested.
24975 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
24976 certificate requests.
24978 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
24979 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
24980 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
24981 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
24984 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24985 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
24986 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
24987 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24989 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
24990 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
24992 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
24993 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
24994 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24995 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
24996 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
24997 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
24998 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
24999 downloads more sensible.
25000 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
25001 another when serving certificates.
25003 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25004 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
25005 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
25006 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
25008 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
25009 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25010 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
25012 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
25013 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25015 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
25016 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
25017 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
25018 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
25019 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25021 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
25022 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
25023 WARN-severity events.
25024 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
25025 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
25026 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
25028 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
25029 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
25030 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
25032 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
25033 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
25034 circuit cannibalization).
25036 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25037 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
25038 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
25039 new module, networkstatus.c.
25040 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
25041 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
25042 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
25043 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
25044 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
25045 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
25046 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
25047 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
25048 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
25050 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
25052 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
25053 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25056 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
25057 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
25058 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
25059 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
25061 o New directory authorities:
25062 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
25063 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
25065 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25066 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
25067 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25069 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
25070 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
25071 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
25072 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
25073 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25074 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
25075 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
25076 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
25077 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
25078 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
25079 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25081 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25082 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
25083 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
25084 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
25085 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
25086 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
25087 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
25088 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
25089 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
25091 o Minor features (security):
25092 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
25093 address maps to an internal address space.
25094 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
25095 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
25097 o Minor features (guard nodes):
25098 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
25099 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
25100 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
25101 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
25103 o Minor features (speed):
25104 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
25105 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
25106 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
25107 on big-endian hosts.)
25109 o Minor features (controller):
25110 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
25111 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
25112 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
25113 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
25116 o Removed features:
25117 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
25118 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
25119 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
25120 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
25121 implementation of proposal 104.
25122 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
25123 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
25124 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
25125 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
25126 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
25127 patch from Karsten Loesing.
25128 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
25129 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
25132 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
25133 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
25134 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25135 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
25136 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25137 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
25138 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25139 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
25140 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
25141 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25142 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
25143 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
25144 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
25145 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25146 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
25147 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
25148 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
25149 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25150 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
25151 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
25153 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25154 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
25155 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
25157 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
25158 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
25159 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
25160 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
25163 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
25164 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
25165 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
25166 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
25167 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
25170 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
25171 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
25174 o Major bugfixes (security):
25175 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
25176 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
25177 become more of a headache than it's worth.
25179 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
25180 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
25181 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
25183 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
25184 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
25185 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
25186 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
25187 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
25188 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
25190 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
25191 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
25192 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
25193 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
25194 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
25196 o Minor features (controller):
25197 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
25198 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
25199 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
25200 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
25202 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25203 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
25204 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
25205 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
25206 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
25207 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
25208 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
25209 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
25211 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25212 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
25213 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
25214 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
25215 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
25216 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
25217 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
25218 if we ran off the end of the list.
25219 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
25220 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
25221 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
25222 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
25223 every time we change any piece of our config.
25224 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
25225 encourage people using them to stop.
25226 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
25228 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
25229 servers to choose a circuit.
25230 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
25231 unparseable piece of it.
25234 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
25235 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
25236 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
25237 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
25240 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
25241 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
25242 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
25243 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
25244 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
25246 o New directory authorities:
25247 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25250 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
25251 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
25252 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
25253 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
25255 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
25256 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
25257 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
25259 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
25260 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
25261 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
25262 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
25263 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
25264 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
25266 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
25267 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
25268 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25271 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
25272 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
25273 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
25274 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
25278 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
25279 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
25280 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
25281 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
25283 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
25284 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
25286 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
25287 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
25288 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
25289 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
25290 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
25291 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
25292 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25293 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
25294 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25295 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
25298 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
25299 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
25300 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
25301 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
25302 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
25303 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
25305 o Removed features:
25306 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
25307 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
25308 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
25309 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
25312 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
25313 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
25314 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
25315 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
25316 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
25319 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
25320 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
25321 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
25322 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
25323 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
25324 reported by lodger.
25326 o Minor features (directory servers):
25327 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
25328 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
25330 o Minor features (directory voting):
25331 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
25334 o Minor features (security):
25335 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
25336 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
25337 encourage people using them to stop.
25339 o Minor features (controller):
25340 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
25341 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
25342 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
25343 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
25344 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
25345 cookie authentication file, and config option
25346 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
25348 o Minor features (unit testing):
25349 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
25350 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
25351 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
25352 logging for the unit tests.
25354 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
25355 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
25356 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
25357 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
25358 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
25359 every time we change any piece of our config.
25360 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
25361 the future. Fixes bug 434.
25362 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
25364 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
25365 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
25366 the onion key from getting rotated.
25367 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
25368 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
25369 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
25372 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
25373 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
25374 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
25376 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
25377 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
25378 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
25379 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
25382 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
25383 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
25384 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
25385 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
25386 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
25387 TorK, etc. Or worse.
25389 o Major security fixes:
25390 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
25391 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
25394 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
25395 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
25396 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
25397 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
25399 o Major security fixes:
25400 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
25401 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
25403 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
25404 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
25407 o Minor features (performance):
25408 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
25409 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
25410 performance-intensive.
25411 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
25412 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
25413 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
25414 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
25415 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
25416 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
25420 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
25421 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
25422 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
25423 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
25427 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
25428 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
25429 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
25430 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
25431 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
25433 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
25434 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
25435 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
25436 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
25438 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
25439 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
25440 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
25441 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
25442 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
25444 o Major features (experimental):
25445 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
25446 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
25447 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
25448 handling before it's ready for use.
25451 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
25452 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
25453 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
25454 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
25455 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
25456 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
25458 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
25459 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
25460 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
25461 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
25462 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
25464 o Major bugfixes (directory):
25465 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
25466 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
25468 o Minor features (controller):
25469 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
25470 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
25471 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
25472 from Robert Hogan.)
25473 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
25474 from Robert Hogan.)
25475 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
25476 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
25478 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
25479 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
25480 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
25481 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
25482 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
25483 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
25484 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
25487 o Minor features (misc):
25488 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
25490 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
25491 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
25492 the authority identity key.
25493 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
25495 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
25496 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
25497 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
25500 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
25501 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
25502 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
25503 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
25504 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
25505 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
25506 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
25507 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
25509 o Performance improvements:
25510 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
25512 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
25513 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
25516 o Deprecated and removed features:
25517 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
25518 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
25519 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
25520 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
25522 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
25523 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
25524 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
25525 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
25526 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
25527 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
25528 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
25529 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
25530 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
25533 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
25534 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
25535 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
25536 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
25537 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
25539 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
25540 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
25543 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25544 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
25545 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
25546 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
25547 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
25548 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
25549 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
25550 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
25551 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
25554 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
25555 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
25556 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
25557 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
25559 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
25560 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
25562 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25563 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
25564 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
25565 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
25566 routerlist while inserting a new router.
25567 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
25568 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
25570 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
25571 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
25572 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
25574 o Major bugfixes (security):
25575 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
25577 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
25578 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
25579 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
25580 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
25581 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
25582 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
25583 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
25584 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
25585 guard list unless we need to.
25587 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
25588 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
25589 don't get overused as guards.
25591 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
25592 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
25593 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
25594 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
25595 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
25597 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25598 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
25599 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
25602 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25603 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25604 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
25605 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
25606 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
25607 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
25608 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
25609 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
25612 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
25613 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
25614 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
25615 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
25617 o Minor features (directory):
25618 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
25619 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
25620 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
25621 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
25623 o Minor build issues:
25624 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
25625 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
25626 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
25627 in the tarball, not as "x".
25630 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
25631 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
25632 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
25633 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
25634 forward on a lot of fronts.
25636 o Major features, server usability:
25637 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
25638 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
25639 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
25640 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
25642 o Major features, client usability:
25643 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
25644 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
25645 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
25646 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
25647 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
25648 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
25649 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
25650 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
25652 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
25653 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
25654 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
25655 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
25656 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
25657 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
25659 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
25660 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
25661 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
25663 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
25664 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
25665 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
25666 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
25667 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
25669 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
25670 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
25671 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
25672 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
25674 o Major features, other:
25675 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
25676 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
25677 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
25678 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
25679 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
25682 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
25683 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
25684 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
25687 o Minor fixes (resource management):
25688 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
25689 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
25690 our allocated connection limit.
25691 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
25692 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
25693 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
25694 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
25695 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
25697 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
25698 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
25699 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
25701 o Minor features (build):
25702 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
25703 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
25704 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
25705 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
25707 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
25708 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
25709 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
25710 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
25711 Use this version consistently in log messages.
25713 o Minor features (logging):
25714 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
25715 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
25716 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
25717 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
25718 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
25721 o Minor features (directory system):
25722 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
25723 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
25724 not to serve V2 directory information.
25725 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
25726 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
25727 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
25729 o Minor features (controller):
25730 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
25731 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
25733 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
25734 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
25735 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
25736 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
25737 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
25738 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
25740 o Minor features (hidden services):
25741 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
25742 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
25743 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
25744 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
25746 o Minor features (other):
25748 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25749 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25750 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25751 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25752 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25753 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25754 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25755 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25756 longer a completely silly thing to do.
25757 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
25758 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
25759 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
25760 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
25762 o Removed features:
25763 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
25764 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
25765 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
25766 back an error and close the connection.
25767 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
25768 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
25771 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
25772 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
25773 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
25774 makes the log messages nicer.
25775 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
25776 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25777 partial results on small file reads.
25779 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
25780 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
25781 more often than they are allowed to appear.
25782 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
25783 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
25785 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
25786 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
25787 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
25788 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
25790 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25791 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
25792 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
25793 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
25794 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
25795 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
25796 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
25797 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25798 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
25799 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
25800 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
25802 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
25803 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
25804 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
25806 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
25807 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
25808 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
25809 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
25811 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25812 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
25813 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
25815 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
25816 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
25819 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25820 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
25821 implicit in other procedure arguments.
25822 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
25823 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
25824 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
25825 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
25826 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
25827 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
25828 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
25829 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
25830 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
25833 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
25834 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
25835 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
25836 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
25838 o Directory authority changes:
25839 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
25840 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
25841 or use hidden services.
25843 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25844 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
25845 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
25846 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
25847 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
25848 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
25849 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
25850 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
25851 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
25854 o Major bugfixes (security):
25855 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
25856 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
25857 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
25859 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
25860 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
25861 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
25862 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
25863 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
25864 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
25865 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
25866 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
25867 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
25868 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
25871 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
25872 purpose=controller.
25873 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
25874 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
25876 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
25877 having a hard time downloading.
25878 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25879 partial results on small file reads.
25880 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
25881 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
25882 the gaps in the store get very large.
25885 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
25886 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
25888 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
25889 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
25892 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
25893 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
25894 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
25895 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
25896 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
25897 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
25899 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
25900 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
25901 free speech on the Internet.
25904 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
25905 get one we don't recognize.
25906 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
25907 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
25910 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
25912 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
25913 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
25914 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
25915 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
25918 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
25919 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
25922 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
25923 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
25924 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
25925 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
25926 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
25927 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
25928 ask for GUARDS too.
25931 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
25932 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
25933 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
25934 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
25935 on Win98 and friends again.
25937 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25938 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
25939 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
25942 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
25943 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
25944 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
25945 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
25946 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
25947 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
25948 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
25949 and maybe also bug 397.)
25951 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25952 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
25953 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
25955 o Minor bugfixes (server):
25956 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
25959 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25960 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
25961 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
25962 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
25963 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
25965 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25966 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
25967 load on authorities.
25969 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25970 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
25971 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
25972 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
25974 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
25976 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
25977 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
25978 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
25979 the last of bug 326.)
25980 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
25981 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
25985 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
25986 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25987 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
25988 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
25989 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
25990 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
25991 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
25993 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
25994 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
25996 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25997 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
25998 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
26000 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
26001 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
26002 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
26004 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
26005 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
26006 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
26007 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
26009 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
26010 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
26012 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
26013 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
26014 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
26017 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26018 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
26019 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
26020 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
26021 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
26022 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
26023 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
26024 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
26025 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
26026 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
26027 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
26028 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
26029 other than file-not-found.
26030 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
26031 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
26032 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
26033 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
26034 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
26035 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
26036 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
26037 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
26038 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
26039 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
26040 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
26041 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
26042 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
26043 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
26044 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
26046 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
26048 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
26049 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
26051 o Minor features (controller):
26052 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
26053 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
26054 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
26056 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
26057 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
26058 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
26059 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
26060 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
26061 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
26062 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
26063 connected or resolved cell.
26065 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26066 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
26067 some profiles, but not others.)
26068 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
26069 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
26070 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
26073 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
26075 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
26076 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
26077 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
26078 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
26079 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
26080 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
26081 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
26082 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
26083 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
26084 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
26085 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
26086 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
26087 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
26088 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
26089 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
26091 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
26094 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
26095 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
26096 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
26097 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
26098 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
26099 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
26100 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
26102 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
26103 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
26104 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
26105 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
26106 buckets go absurdly negative.
26107 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
26108 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
26111 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
26112 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
26113 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
26114 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
26115 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
26116 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
26117 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
26118 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
26121 o Major bugfixes (other):
26122 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
26123 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
26124 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
26125 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
26127 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
26129 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
26130 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
26132 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
26133 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
26134 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
26135 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
26136 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
26137 to wait for 0.2.0.)
26139 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
26140 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
26141 possible memory-stomping bugs.
26142 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
26143 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
26145 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
26146 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
26147 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
26148 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
26149 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
26150 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
26152 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26153 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
26154 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
26155 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
26157 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
26158 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
26159 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
26160 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
26161 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
26162 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
26163 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
26164 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
26165 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
26166 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
26167 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
26168 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
26169 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
26171 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
26172 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
26173 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
26174 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
26175 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
26176 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
26177 to the resulting address.
26180 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
26181 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
26182 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
26183 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
26186 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
26187 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
26189 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
26190 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
26191 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
26192 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
26193 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
26194 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
26195 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
26196 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
26197 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
26198 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
26199 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
26200 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
26201 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
26202 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
26203 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
26204 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
26205 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
26208 o Minor features (controller):
26209 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
26210 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
26211 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
26212 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
26213 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
26214 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
26215 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
26219 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
26221 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
26222 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
26223 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
26224 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
26225 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
26226 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
26229 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
26230 weren't planning to resolve.
26231 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
26232 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
26233 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
26234 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
26235 the controller from learning about current events.
26237 o Minor features (more controller status events):
26238 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
26239 learn when our address changes.
26240 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
26241 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
26242 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
26243 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
26245 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
26246 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
26247 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
26248 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
26249 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
26250 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
26251 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
26252 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
26253 are accepted by a directory.
26254 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
26255 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
26256 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
26257 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
26258 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
26260 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
26261 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
26262 about changes to DNS server status.
26264 o Minor features (directory):
26265 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
26266 too much load to the exit nodes.
26269 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
26271 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
26272 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
26273 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
26274 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
26275 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
26277 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
26278 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
26279 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
26281 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
26282 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
26283 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
26284 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
26285 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
26286 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
26287 config options if you like.
26289 o Minor features (config and docs):
26290 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
26291 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
26292 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
26293 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
26294 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
26296 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
26297 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
26298 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
26299 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
26300 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
26302 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
26303 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
26304 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
26305 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
26306 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
26307 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
26308 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
26309 documentation: "make check-docs".
26310 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
26311 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
26313 o Minor features (DNS):
26314 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
26315 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
26316 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
26317 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
26318 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26319 our tests for DNS hijacking.
26321 o Minor features (directory):
26322 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
26323 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
26324 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
26325 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
26326 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
26327 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
26328 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
26329 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
26330 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
26331 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
26332 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
26333 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
26334 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
26335 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
26336 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
26337 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
26338 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
26339 for the thing we're trying to download.
26340 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
26341 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
26342 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
26344 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
26345 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
26346 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
26349 o Minor features (controller):
26350 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
26351 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
26353 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
26354 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
26355 entry guard status as it changes.
26357 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
26358 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
26359 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
26360 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
26361 to set log options.
26362 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
26363 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
26364 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
26365 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
26368 o Major bugfixes (security):
26369 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
26370 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
26371 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
26372 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
26374 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
26375 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
26376 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
26377 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
26378 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
26380 o Major bugfixes (other):
26381 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
26382 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
26383 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
26384 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
26386 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
26387 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
26388 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
26389 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
26390 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
26391 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
26395 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
26396 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
26397 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
26398 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
26399 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
26401 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
26402 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
26404 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
26405 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
26406 family lists conveniently.
26407 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
26408 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
26409 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
26411 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
26412 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
26414 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
26415 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
26416 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
26417 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
26418 if their identity keys are as expected.
26419 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
26420 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
26421 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
26423 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
26424 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
26425 reported by Mike Perry.
26426 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
26427 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
26428 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
26429 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
26432 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
26433 o Security bugfixes:
26434 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
26435 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
26436 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
26437 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
26441 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
26442 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
26443 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
26446 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
26448 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
26449 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
26450 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
26453 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
26454 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
26455 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
26456 watching for STREAM events.
26457 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
26458 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
26459 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
26460 operations, for profiling.
26463 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
26464 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
26465 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
26466 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
26467 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
26468 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
26470 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
26474 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
26475 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
26476 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
26477 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
26478 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
26480 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
26481 correctly in the Windows installer.
26482 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
26483 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
26484 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
26485 MIPSpro C compiler.
26486 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
26487 when we're running as a client.
26490 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
26492 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
26493 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
26494 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26495 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
26496 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
26497 its circuits on demand.
26498 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
26499 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
26500 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
26501 connections more stable on average.
26502 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
26503 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
26504 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
26506 o Security bugfixes:
26507 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
26508 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
26511 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
26513 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
26514 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
26515 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
26516 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
26517 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
26518 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
26519 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
26520 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
26523 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
26525 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
26526 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
26527 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
26528 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
26529 routers for even longer.
26530 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
26531 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
26532 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
26533 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
26534 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
26535 caching HTTP proxies.
26536 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
26539 o Minor features, controller:
26540 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
26541 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
26542 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
26543 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
26545 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
26546 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
26547 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
26548 working much like those for circuit events.
26549 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
26550 about the current status of a router.
26551 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
26552 a router's status has changed.
26553 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
26554 can tell which events and features are supported.
26555 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
26556 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
26558 o Security bugfixes:
26559 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
26560 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
26563 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
26564 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
26565 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
26566 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
26567 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
26568 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
26569 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
26570 long nicknames where appropriate.
26571 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
26572 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
26573 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
26574 chews through many circuits before giving up.
26575 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
26576 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
26577 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
26578 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
26579 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
26580 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
26582 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
26583 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
26584 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
26586 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
26587 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
26588 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
26589 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
26590 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
26591 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
26592 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
26593 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
26594 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
26595 (reported by fookoowa).
26596 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
26597 and reported by some Centos users.
26598 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
26599 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
26600 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
26601 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
26602 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
26603 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
26604 before we check for libevent.
26607 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
26609 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
26610 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
26611 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
26612 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
26613 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
26614 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
26615 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
26616 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
26617 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
26618 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
26619 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
26620 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
26621 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
26622 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
26623 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
26624 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
26625 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
26626 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
26627 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
26628 lets you turn it off.
26629 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
26630 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
26631 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
26632 us into the directory more quickly.
26634 o New/improved config options:
26635 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
26636 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
26637 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
26638 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
26639 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
26640 all the machines on the same subnet.
26641 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
26642 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
26643 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
26644 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
26645 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
26646 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
26647 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
26648 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
26649 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
26650 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
26652 o Minor features, controller:
26653 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
26654 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
26655 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
26656 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
26657 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
26658 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
26659 for more information.
26660 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
26661 best guess to the user.
26662 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
26663 descriptor has changed.
26664 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
26666 o Minor features, other:
26667 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
26668 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
26669 useful to the network.
26670 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
26671 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
26672 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
26673 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
26674 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
26675 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
26676 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
26677 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
26678 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
26679 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
26680 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
26681 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
26682 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
26683 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
26684 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
26686 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
26687 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
26688 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
26689 could return an unnamed server instead.
26690 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
26691 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
26692 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
26693 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
26694 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
26695 a more attractive target for compromise.)
26696 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
26697 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
26698 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
26700 o Major bugfixes, other:
26701 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
26702 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
26703 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
26704 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
26705 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
26706 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
26707 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
26708 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
26709 its circuits on demand.
26710 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
26711 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
26712 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
26713 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
26715 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
26716 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
26717 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
26718 we don't recognize.
26719 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
26721 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
26722 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
26723 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
26724 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
26725 "extendcircuit" request.
26726 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
26727 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
26728 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
26730 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
26731 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
26732 instead of "X resolved to X".
26733 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
26734 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
26735 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
26736 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
26737 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
26738 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
26739 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
26740 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
26741 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
26743 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
26744 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
26745 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
26746 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
26747 result more than once.
26748 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
26749 non-versioning dirservers.
26750 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
26751 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
26753 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
26754 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
26755 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
26756 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
26757 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
26758 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
26759 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
26760 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
26761 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
26763 o Packaging, features:
26764 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
26765 now universal binaries.
26766 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
26767 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
26768 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
26770 o Packaging, bugfixes:
26771 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
26772 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
26773 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
26774 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
26776 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
26777 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
26778 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
26781 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
26782 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
26783 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
26787 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
26789 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
26790 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
26791 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
26792 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
26793 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
26794 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
26795 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
26796 it can't resolve its hostname.
26799 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
26800 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
26801 "extendcircuit" request.
26802 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
26803 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
26804 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
26805 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
26807 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
26808 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
26809 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
26811 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
26812 methods: these are known to be buggy.
26813 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
26814 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
26815 we don't recognize.
26818 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
26820 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
26821 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
26822 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
26823 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
26824 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
26825 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
26826 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
26827 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
26828 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
26829 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
26830 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
26831 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
26832 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
26833 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
26834 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
26835 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
26836 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
26837 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
26838 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
26839 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
26840 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
26841 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
26842 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
26843 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
26846 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
26847 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
26848 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
26849 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
26850 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
26851 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
26852 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
26853 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
26854 recommendation system saner.)
26855 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
26857 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
26858 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
26859 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
26860 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
26861 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
26862 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
26863 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
26864 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
26865 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
26866 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
26867 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
26868 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
26869 your ORPort is set.
26870 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
26871 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
26872 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
26873 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
26874 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
26875 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
26876 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
26877 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
26878 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
26879 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
26880 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
26881 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
26883 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
26884 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
26885 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
26886 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
26887 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
26888 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
26891 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
26892 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
26893 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
26894 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
26895 our DirPort now, etc.
26896 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
26897 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
26898 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
26899 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
26900 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
26901 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
26902 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
26904 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
26905 whether the config options are bad or good.
26906 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
26907 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
26908 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
26909 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
26910 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
26911 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
26912 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
26913 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
26916 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
26917 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
26918 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
26919 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
26920 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
26921 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
26922 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
26923 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
26924 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
26925 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
26926 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
26927 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
26928 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
26929 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
26930 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
26931 of it), is not therefore "up".
26932 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
26933 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
26934 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
26935 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
26936 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
26937 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
26940 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
26942 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
26943 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
26944 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
26945 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
26946 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
26947 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
26948 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
26949 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
26950 test reachability, so you won't publish.
26953 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
26954 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
26955 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
26956 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
26957 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
26959 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
26960 own server descriptor yet.
26963 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
26965 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
26966 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
26967 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
26968 make sure to test via one of these.
26969 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
26970 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
26971 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
26972 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
26973 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
26975 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
26976 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
26977 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
26980 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
26981 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
26982 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
26983 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
26984 directory authority.
26985 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
26986 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
26987 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
26988 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
26991 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
26992 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
26993 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
26995 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
26996 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
26997 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
26998 current guards when picking a new guard.
26999 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
27000 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
27001 when we had more than one pending.
27002 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
27003 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
27004 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
27005 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
27006 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
27007 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
27008 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
27009 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
27010 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
27011 debug the reachability problems better.
27013 o Log / documentation fixes:
27014 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
27015 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
27016 about protocol violations by others.
27017 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
27018 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
27019 about what happened to our old torrc.
27022 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
27024 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
27026 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
27027 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
27028 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
27029 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
27032 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
27034 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
27035 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
27036 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
27037 old ORPort and receive connections.
27038 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
27040 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
27041 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
27042 and network-statuses.
27043 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
27044 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
27045 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
27046 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
27048 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
27051 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
27052 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
27053 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
27056 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
27058 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
27059 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
27060 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
27061 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
27062 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
27065 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
27066 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
27068 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
27069 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
27070 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
27071 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
27072 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27073 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
27074 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
27075 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
27076 rather than not sending anything back at all.
27077 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
27078 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
27079 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
27080 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
27081 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
27082 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
27083 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
27084 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
27085 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
27086 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
27087 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
27088 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
27089 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
27090 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
27091 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
27092 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
27093 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
27094 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
27095 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
27096 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
27097 default ulimit -n is 1024.
27100 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
27101 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
27102 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
27103 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
27106 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
27108 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
27109 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
27110 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
27111 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
27112 entry guards running these flawed versions.
27113 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
27114 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
27115 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
27116 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
27117 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
27120 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
27121 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
27123 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
27124 and it is confusing some users.
27125 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
27126 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
27127 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
27128 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
27129 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
27132 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
27134 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27135 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
27136 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27137 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27138 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27139 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
27140 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
27141 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27142 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
27143 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
27144 dirport is set for now.
27146 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
27147 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
27148 unattached before we fail it?
27149 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
27150 at least this many seconds ago.
27151 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
27152 at least this many seconds ago.
27155 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
27156 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
27157 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
27158 or resolve-wait stream.
27159 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
27160 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
27161 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
27162 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
27163 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
27164 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
27165 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27166 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
27168 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
27169 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
27170 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
27171 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27172 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27173 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
27174 given as hex digests.
27175 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
27176 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
27177 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
27178 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
27179 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
27180 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
27181 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
27182 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
27185 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27186 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
27187 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
27188 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
27189 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
27190 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
27191 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27192 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
27193 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
27194 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
27195 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
27198 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
27199 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
27200 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27201 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27202 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
27203 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
27204 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
27207 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
27208 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
27209 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
27210 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
27211 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
27212 misreading their logs.
27213 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
27214 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
27215 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
27216 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
27217 valid router descriptors.
27218 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
27219 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
27220 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
27221 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
27222 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
27223 silently resetting it to its default.
27224 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
27226 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
27229 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
27230 use clean circuits.
27231 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27232 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
27233 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
27234 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
27235 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
27237 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
27238 because older Tors do not understand it.
27239 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27243 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
27244 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
27245 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
27246 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
27247 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
27248 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
27249 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
27250 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
27251 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
27252 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
27253 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
27255 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
27256 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
27257 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
27258 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
27260 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
27261 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
27264 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
27265 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
27266 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
27267 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
27268 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
27269 without getting overloaded.
27270 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
27272 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
27273 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
27274 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
27275 be forward-compatible.
27276 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27277 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27278 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
27279 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
27281 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
27282 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
27283 and OR conns to port 443.
27284 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27285 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27287 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
27288 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
27289 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
27290 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
27291 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
27292 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
27293 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
27296 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
27297 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27298 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
27299 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
27301 o Other important bugfixes:
27302 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
27303 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
27304 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
27305 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
27307 o Backported features:
27308 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
27309 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
27310 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
27311 without getting overloaded.
27312 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
27313 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
27314 503's whenever they feel busy.
27315 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
27316 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
27317 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
27318 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
27319 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
27322 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
27323 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
27324 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
27325 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
27326 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
27327 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
27328 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
27329 know if the crashes continue.
27330 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
27331 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
27332 seg faults in at least some cases.)
27333 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
27334 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
27335 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
27338 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
27339 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27340 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27341 try to be a bit more fair.
27342 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
27343 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
27344 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
27345 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
27346 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
27347 bug that let it go negative.
27348 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
27349 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
27350 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
27351 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
27352 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
27353 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
27354 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
27355 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
27356 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
27357 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
27358 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
27361 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
27363 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
27364 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
27365 service descriptors.
27368 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
27369 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
27370 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
27371 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
27373 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
27374 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
27375 versions *are* still recommended.
27376 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
27377 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
27378 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
27379 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
27380 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
27381 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
27382 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
27383 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
27385 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
27386 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
27387 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
27388 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27389 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27390 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
27391 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
27392 on it. Not used by clients yet.
27393 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
27394 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
27395 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
27396 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
27397 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
27398 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
27399 established a circuit.
27400 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27401 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27402 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27403 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27406 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
27407 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
27408 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
27409 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
27410 quickly enough. Oops.
27411 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
27413 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27414 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
27417 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
27418 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
27419 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
27420 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
27421 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
27422 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
27423 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
27424 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
27425 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
27426 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
27427 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
27428 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
27429 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
27430 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
27431 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
27432 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
27433 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
27436 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
27437 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
27438 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
27439 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
27440 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
27441 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
27442 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
27443 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
27444 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
27445 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
27446 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
27447 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27448 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27449 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27450 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27451 connections more reliable.
27454 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
27455 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
27456 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
27457 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
27458 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
27459 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
27460 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
27461 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
27462 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
27463 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
27464 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
27465 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
27466 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
27467 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
27471 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
27472 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
27473 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
27474 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
27475 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
27476 need to be uint64_t's.
27477 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
27478 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
27479 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
27481 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
27483 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
27484 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
27485 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
27486 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
27487 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
27488 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
27489 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27491 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
27492 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
27493 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
27494 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
27495 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
27496 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
27497 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
27498 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27499 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27500 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
27501 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
27502 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
27503 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
27506 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
27507 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
27508 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
27509 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
27510 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27511 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27512 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27514 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
27515 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
27516 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27517 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27518 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
27519 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
27520 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
27521 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27523 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27524 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27525 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27526 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
27527 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
27528 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
27529 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
27530 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
27531 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
27532 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
27533 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
27534 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
27535 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27536 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
27537 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27539 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27540 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27543 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
27544 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27545 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
27546 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
27547 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
27548 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
27549 too -- so detect and avoid this.
27550 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
27552 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
27553 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
27554 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
27555 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
27556 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
27557 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
27558 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
27559 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
27560 rendezvous circuits.
27561 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
27563 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27564 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
27565 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
27566 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
27567 advertising it because of hibernation.
27568 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
27569 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
27570 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
27571 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
27572 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
27573 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
27574 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
27575 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
27576 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
27577 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
27578 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
27579 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
27580 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
27581 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
27584 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
27585 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27586 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
27587 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
27588 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
27589 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
27590 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
27591 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
27592 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
27593 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
27594 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
27595 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
27596 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
27597 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
27598 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
27599 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
27600 connections once a week.
27601 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
27602 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
27603 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
27604 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
27605 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
27606 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
27608 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
27609 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
27610 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
27612 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27613 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
27614 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
27615 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
27616 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
27617 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
27618 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
27619 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
27620 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
27621 firewall options forbid.
27622 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
27623 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
27624 can only proxy to certain destinations.
27625 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
27626 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
27627 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
27628 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
27629 aids some statistical attacks.
27630 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
27631 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
27632 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
27633 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
27635 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
27636 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
27637 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
27638 server descriptor sometimes.
27639 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
27640 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
27641 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
27642 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
27643 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
27644 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
27645 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
27646 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
27648 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
27649 case the controller wants to change that too.
27650 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
27651 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
27652 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
27653 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
27655 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
27656 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
27657 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
27659 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
27660 descriptors that they know they will reject.
27662 o Features and updates:
27663 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
27664 significantly faster.
27665 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
27666 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
27667 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
27668 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
27669 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
27670 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
27671 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
27672 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
27673 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
27674 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
27675 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
27676 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
27677 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
27678 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
27679 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
27680 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
27681 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
27682 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
27683 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
27684 as authoritative dirserver.
27685 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
27686 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
27687 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
27690 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
27691 o Usability improvements:
27692 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
27693 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
27695 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
27696 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
27697 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
27699 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
27700 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
27701 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
27702 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
27703 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
27704 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
27705 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
27706 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
27707 memory leaks better.
27708 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
27709 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
27710 their operators to pay close attention.
27711 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
27712 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
27714 o Performance improvements:
27715 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
27716 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27717 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27718 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27719 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
27720 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
27721 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
27722 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
27723 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
27724 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
27725 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
27726 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
27727 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
27728 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
27729 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
27730 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
27731 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
27733 o Security improvements:
27734 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
27735 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
27736 fingerprint of server.
27737 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
27738 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
27739 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
27741 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27742 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
27743 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
27744 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
27745 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
27746 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
27747 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
27748 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
27749 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
27750 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
27751 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
27752 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
27753 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
27754 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
27755 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
27756 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
27757 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
27758 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
27759 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27760 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27761 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27763 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
27764 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
27765 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
27767 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
27768 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
27770 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
27771 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
27772 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
27773 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
27774 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
27775 of the controller protocol.
27776 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
27777 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
27778 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
27781 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
27782 o New features (major):
27783 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
27784 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
27785 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27786 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
27787 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27788 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27789 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
27790 we're using a default DirPort.
27791 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
27793 o New features (minor):
27794 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
27795 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
27796 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27797 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27798 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
27799 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
27800 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27801 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
27802 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
27803 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
27804 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
27805 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
27806 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
27807 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
27808 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27809 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27810 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
27811 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
27812 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
27814 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
27815 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
27816 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
27817 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
27818 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
27819 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
27820 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
27821 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
27823 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
27824 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
27825 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
27826 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
27827 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
27828 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
27829 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
27830 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
27831 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
27832 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
27834 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
27835 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
27836 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
27837 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
27838 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
27840 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
27841 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
27842 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
27844 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
27845 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
27847 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
27848 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27849 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
27850 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
27851 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
27852 don't warn twice about the same name.
27853 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
27854 if we've not heard of the server.
27855 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
27856 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
27859 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
27860 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27861 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
27862 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
27863 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
27864 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27865 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27866 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
27867 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
27868 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
27869 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
27870 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
27871 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
27872 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
27873 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
27876 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
27877 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
27878 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
27879 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
27880 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
27882 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
27883 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
27884 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
27885 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
27886 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
27887 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
27891 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
27892 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
27893 nickname) is reachable by you.
27894 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
27897 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
27898 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
27899 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
27900 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
27901 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
27902 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
27903 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
27904 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27905 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27906 we fail to connect).
27907 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
27908 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
27909 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
27910 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
27912 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
27913 it was self-testing that told us so.
27916 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
27917 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
27918 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
27919 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
27920 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
27921 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
27922 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
27923 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
27924 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
27925 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
27926 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
27927 exit policy using him for any exits.
27928 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
27931 o New controller features/fixes:
27932 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
27933 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27934 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27935 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27936 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
27937 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
27938 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
27939 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
27940 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
27942 o Start on the new directory design:
27943 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
27944 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
27946 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
27947 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
27948 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
27949 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
27951 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
27952 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
27953 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27954 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
27955 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
27956 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27957 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27958 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27961 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
27962 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
27963 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27964 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27965 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
27966 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
27967 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
27968 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
27969 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
27970 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
27972 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
27973 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27974 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27975 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27976 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27977 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27978 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
27979 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
27980 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
27982 o Config option changes:
27983 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
27984 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
27985 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
27986 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27987 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27988 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
27990 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
27991 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
27992 people have started using them for spam too.
27993 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
27994 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
27995 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
27996 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
27997 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
27998 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
27999 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
28000 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
28001 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
28002 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
28003 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
28004 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
28005 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
28006 services faster on the service end.
28007 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
28008 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
28009 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
28010 it a fair shake next time we try.
28011 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
28012 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
28013 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
28014 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
28015 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
28016 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
28017 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
28018 able to discover them.
28019 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
28020 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
28021 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
28022 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
28023 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
28024 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
28025 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
28026 testing for reachability.
28027 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
28028 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
28030 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
28032 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
28033 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
28036 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
28037 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
28039 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28040 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
28041 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
28042 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
28045 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
28046 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28047 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
28049 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
28050 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
28053 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
28054 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
28057 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
28058 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
28059 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
28060 options, getinfo keys.
28063 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
28064 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28065 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
28066 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28067 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28068 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
28069 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
28071 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
28072 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
28076 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
28077 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
28078 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
28080 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
28082 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
28083 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
28084 circuit events and we go offline.
28085 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
28086 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
28087 you don't have enough intro points already.
28089 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
28090 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
28091 many bytes we've used in this time period.
28092 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
28093 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
28094 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
28095 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
28096 enabled by default yet.
28098 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
28099 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
28100 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
28101 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28102 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28105 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
28106 o New directory servers:
28107 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28109 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28110 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28111 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28112 pthreads libraries.
28113 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
28114 claims its dirport is 0.
28115 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
28116 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
28120 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
28121 o New directory servers:
28122 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28124 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
28125 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
28127 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
28128 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
28129 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
28130 ports that have changed.
28131 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28133 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
28134 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
28135 Windows-style errno back.
28136 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
28138 want to make it an NT service.
28139 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
28140 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
28141 name, give the full name in our response.
28142 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
28143 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
28144 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
28145 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28146 pthreads libraries.
28148 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
28149 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
28153 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
28154 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
28155 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
28156 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
28157 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
28160 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
28161 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28162 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
28163 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
28164 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28165 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28166 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28167 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
28170 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
28172 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28173 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28174 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28175 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
28176 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
28177 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
28179 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
28180 temporarily unreachable.
28181 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
28185 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
28186 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
28187 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
28188 our protocol works.
28189 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
28193 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
28194 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
28195 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28196 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28197 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28201 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
28202 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
28203 libevent before 1.1a.
28206 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
28208 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
28209 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
28210 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
28211 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
28212 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
28214 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
28215 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
28216 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
28217 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
28218 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
28219 of CPU time plus memory.
28220 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
28221 normal web requests.
28222 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
28223 tor_lookup_hostname().
28224 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
28225 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
28226 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
28227 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
28228 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
28229 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
28231 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
28232 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
28233 HttpProxyAuthenticator
28234 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
28235 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
28236 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
28238 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
28239 the user asks you to.
28240 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
28241 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
28242 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
28243 their descriptors are being rejected.
28244 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
28248 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
28250 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
28251 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
28252 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
28254 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
28256 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
28258 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
28259 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
28260 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
28261 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
28262 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
28263 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
28264 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
28265 keys) from the exit server's process.
28266 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
28267 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
28268 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
28269 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
28270 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
28271 point at your Tor server.
28272 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
28273 you're not sending a socks reply back.
28276 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
28277 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
28278 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
28279 to make it easier to write controllers.
28282 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
28284 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
28285 installing on Tiger.
28286 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
28287 complain during installation.
28288 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
28289 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
28290 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
28291 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
28292 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
28293 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
28295 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
28296 something more reasonable when first installing.
28297 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
28300 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
28302 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
28303 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
28305 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
28306 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
28307 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
28308 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
28309 when using the default exit policy.
28310 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
28311 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
28312 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
28313 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
28314 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
28315 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
28316 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
28317 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
28318 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
28319 we fetched a new directory.
28320 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
28321 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
28324 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
28325 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
28326 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
28327 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
28328 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
28329 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
28330 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
28331 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
28333 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
28334 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
28335 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
28336 save memory on systems that need to fork.
28337 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
28338 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
28339 is valid without actually launching Tor.
28340 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
28341 rather than just rejecting it.
28344 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
28346 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
28347 we didn't like its cert.
28349 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
28350 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
28351 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
28352 on patch from Adam Langley.
28353 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
28354 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
28355 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
28356 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
28358 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
28359 directory every time you regenerate it.
28360 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
28361 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
28364 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
28365 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28366 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28367 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
28368 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
28371 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
28373 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28374 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
28375 TLS errors better in other situations too.
28376 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
28377 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
28378 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
28379 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
28380 and don't log when you are.
28381 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
28382 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
28384 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
28385 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
28386 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
28387 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
28388 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
28391 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
28392 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
28393 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
28394 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
28395 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
28396 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
28397 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
28398 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
28399 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
28400 nickname+key are allowed.
28401 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
28402 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
28403 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
28404 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
28405 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
28406 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
28407 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
28408 have quite wrong clocks).
28409 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
28410 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
28411 - Efficiency improvements:
28412 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
28413 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
28414 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
28415 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
28416 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
28417 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
28418 lowercase and be done with it.
28419 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
28420 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
28421 to abandon partially built circuits.
28422 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
28423 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
28425 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
28427 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
28428 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
28429 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
28430 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
28432 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
28433 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
28435 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
28436 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
28437 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
28438 obeying the exit policy internally.
28439 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
28440 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
28442 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
28443 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
28444 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
28445 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
28447 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
28448 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
28449 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
28450 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
28451 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
28453 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
28454 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
28455 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
28456 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
28457 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
28458 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
28459 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
28460 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
28461 descriptors we just dropped.
28462 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
28463 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
28464 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
28465 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
28466 artificially capped at 500kB.
28469 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
28470 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28471 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
28472 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
28473 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
28474 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
28475 busy for more than 100 seconds.
28478 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
28479 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
28480 - Fixes on reachability detection:
28481 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
28482 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
28483 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
28484 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
28485 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
28486 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
28487 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
28488 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
28489 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
28490 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
28491 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
28492 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
28493 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
28494 server not already connected to them.
28495 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
28496 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
28497 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
28499 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
28501 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
28502 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
28503 are in a different state than they actually are.
28504 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
28505 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
28506 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
28508 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
28509 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
28510 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
28512 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
28513 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
28514 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
28515 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
28516 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
28517 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
28518 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
28520 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
28521 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
28522 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
28523 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
28526 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
28527 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28528 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
28529 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
28530 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
28531 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
28532 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
28533 creating actual system users.
28534 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
28535 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
28539 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
28541 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
28542 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
28543 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
28544 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
28545 hidden services better.
28546 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
28548 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
28549 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
28550 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
28551 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
28552 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
28553 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
28554 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
28555 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
28556 patch by Matt Edman).
28557 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
28558 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
28559 required exit node for certain sites.
28560 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
28561 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
28562 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
28563 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
28564 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
28565 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
28566 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
28567 rather than just "success" or "failure".
28568 - A more sane version numbering system. See
28569 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
28570 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
28571 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
28573 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
28574 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
28575 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
28576 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
28577 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
28578 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
28579 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
28581 o Robustness/stability fixes:
28582 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
28583 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
28584 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
28586 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
28587 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
28588 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
28590 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
28591 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
28592 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
28594 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
28595 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
28596 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
28597 that will want high uptime circuits.
28598 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
28599 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
28600 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
28601 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
28602 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
28603 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
28604 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
28605 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
28606 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
28607 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
28608 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
28609 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
28610 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
28611 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
28612 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
28613 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
28614 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
28615 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
28616 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
28617 when we try to launch one.
28618 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
28619 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
28620 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
28621 "ShutdownWaitLength".
28622 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
28623 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
28624 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
28625 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
28626 and to take errno into account where possible.
28629 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
28630 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
28631 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
28632 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
28633 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
28634 file more reasonable.
28635 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
28636 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
28637 addresses -- it won't.
28638 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
28639 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
28640 for google.com" problem.
28641 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
28642 so it's not just "unknown platform".
28643 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
28644 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
28645 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
28646 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
28648 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
28649 they could use instead.
28650 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
28651 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
28652 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
28653 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
28654 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
28655 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
28656 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
28657 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
28658 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
28660 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
28664 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
28665 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
28667 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
28668 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
28669 private-IP addresses.
28670 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
28671 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
28673 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
28674 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
28675 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
28676 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
28677 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
28678 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
28679 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
28681 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
28682 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
28683 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
28684 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
28685 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
28686 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
28687 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
28688 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
28690 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
28692 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
28693 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
28694 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
28695 whether the server is hibernating.
28698 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
28699 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
28700 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
28701 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
28702 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
28703 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
28704 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
28705 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
28706 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
28707 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
28708 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
28709 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
28710 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
28711 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
28712 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
28714 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
28715 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
28716 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
28717 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
28718 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
28719 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
28720 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
28721 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
28722 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
28723 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
28724 existing torrc files.
28725 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
28728 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
28729 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28730 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
28731 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
28732 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
28733 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
28734 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
28735 the win32 SYSTEM account.
28736 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
28737 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
28738 file descriptors available.
28739 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
28740 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
28741 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
28744 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
28745 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28746 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
28747 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
28749 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
28750 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
28751 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
28752 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
28753 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
28755 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
28756 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
28757 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
28758 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
28759 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
28760 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28761 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28762 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28763 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28764 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28765 800kB/s of capacity.
28766 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28769 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28770 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28771 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28772 need as much processor time.
28773 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28774 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28775 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28776 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28777 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28778 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28779 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28780 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28781 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28782 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28783 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28784 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28786 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28787 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28788 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28789 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28790 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28791 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28792 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28795 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28796 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28797 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28799 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28800 style address, then we'd crash.
28801 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28802 a dirserver is broken.
28803 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28805 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28806 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28807 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28809 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28810 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28811 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28812 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28813 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28814 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28816 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28817 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28818 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28820 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28822 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28823 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28824 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28825 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28826 values at once couldn't work.
28827 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28828 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28829 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28830 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28831 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28832 they can handle any number of routers.
28833 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28834 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28835 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28836 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28837 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28838 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28839 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28840 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28841 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28844 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28845 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28846 - Make hibernation actually work.
28847 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28848 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28849 don't use the stream status code.
28852 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28854 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
28855 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
28857 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
28860 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
28861 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
28862 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
28863 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
28864 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
28865 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28866 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28867 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
28868 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
28869 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
28871 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28872 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28873 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28874 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28875 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28876 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
28877 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28878 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28881 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
28882 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
28883 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
28885 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
28886 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
28887 than just chopping them off.
28888 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
28890 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28891 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28892 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28893 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28894 right after sending the begin cell.
28895 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28896 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28897 exit nodes too. Oops.
28900 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
28901 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
28902 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
28903 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
28904 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
28905 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
28906 the user knows which one it's talking about.
28907 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
28908 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
28909 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
28912 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
28913 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28914 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28915 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28917 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28919 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
28920 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
28921 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
28923 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
28924 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
28925 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
28926 Clip rather than rejecting.
28927 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
28928 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
28931 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
28932 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
28933 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
28934 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
28936 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
28939 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
28940 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28941 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28942 win32 socket errors better.
28944 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
28945 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
28948 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
28949 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28950 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28951 so we don't see those messages days later.
28953 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
28954 - Make tor-resolve work again.
28955 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
28956 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
28959 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
28960 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
28961 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
28962 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
28964 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
28965 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
28966 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
28969 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
28970 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28971 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28972 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28973 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28974 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28975 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28976 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28977 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28979 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
28980 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
28981 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
28982 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
28984 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
28985 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
28988 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
28989 hibernation properties by
28990 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
28991 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
28992 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
28993 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
28994 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
28995 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
28996 get back to normal.)
28997 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
28999 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
29000 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
29001 to fill the last cell completely.
29002 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
29005 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
29006 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
29007 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
29008 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
29009 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
29010 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
29011 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
29012 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
29013 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
29014 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
29015 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
29017 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
29018 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
29019 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
29020 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
29021 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
29022 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
29023 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
29024 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
29026 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
29027 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
29028 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
29029 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
29030 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
29031 have it on start-up.
29034 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
29035 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
29036 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
29037 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
29038 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
29039 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
29040 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
29041 configuration to torrc.
29042 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
29043 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
29044 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
29045 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
29046 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
29048 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
29049 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
29050 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
29051 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
29052 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
29053 log more informatively.
29054 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
29055 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
29056 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
29057 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
29058 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
29059 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
29060 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
29061 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
29062 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
29063 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
29064 from each other, to hinder linkability.
29067 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
29068 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
29069 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
29070 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
29071 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
29072 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
29073 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
29075 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
29076 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
29077 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
29078 they ran out of file descriptors.
29079 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
29080 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
29081 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
29082 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
29083 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
29084 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
29085 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
29087 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
29090 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
29091 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
29092 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
29093 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
29094 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
29095 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
29096 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
29097 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
29098 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
29099 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
29100 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
29101 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
29102 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
29103 with the control port.
29104 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
29105 use in authenticating to the control interface.
29106 - New log format in config:
29107 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
29108 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
29111 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
29112 from their dirserver.
29113 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
29115 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
29116 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
29117 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
29118 them act more like real nodes.
29119 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
29120 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
29122 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
29123 nickname to its identity key.
29124 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
29125 not on the command line.
29126 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
29127 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
29128 1024) file descriptors.
29130 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
29131 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
29133 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
29134 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
29135 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
29138 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
29139 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
29140 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
29141 exit policy, not reject *:*.
29142 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
29143 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
29144 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
29145 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
29146 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
29147 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
29148 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
29151 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
29152 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
29153 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
29154 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
29155 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
29156 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
29157 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
29160 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
29161 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
29162 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
29163 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
29164 the ones we find in directories.)
29165 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
29167 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
29168 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
29170 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
29171 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
29172 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
29174 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
29175 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
29176 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
29177 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
29179 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
29180 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
29181 any more exit policy lines.
29184 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
29185 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
29186 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
29187 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
29188 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
29189 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
29190 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
29191 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
29192 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
29193 will be able to get a directory.
29194 - Http proxy support
29195 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
29196 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
29197 be routed through this host.
29198 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
29199 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
29200 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
29201 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
29204 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
29206 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
29207 clients/servers with an open dirport.
29208 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
29209 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
29210 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
29211 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
29212 intermittent connections.
29213 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
29214 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
29216 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
29217 in reporting stats locally.
29218 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
29219 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
29220 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
29223 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
29225 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
29226 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
29229 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
29231 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
29232 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
29233 if you don't want it open.
29234 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
29235 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
29236 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
29237 intermittent connections.
29238 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
29240 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
29241 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
29242 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
29243 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
29244 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
29245 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
29246 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
29247 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
29248 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
29249 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
29250 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
29251 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
29252 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
29253 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
29254 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
29255 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
29258 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
29259 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
29260 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
29261 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
29262 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
29264 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
29266 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
29267 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
29268 specified in HTTP 1.0.
29269 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
29270 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
29271 than once per minute.
29272 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
29273 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
29276 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
29277 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
29280 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
29281 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
29282 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
29283 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
29286 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
29287 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
29289 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
29290 don't put it into the client dns cache.
29291 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
29292 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
29293 until we get our next directory.
29295 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
29296 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
29297 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
29298 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
29299 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
29300 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
29301 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
29302 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
29303 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
29304 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
29305 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
29307 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
29309 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
29310 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
29312 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
29313 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
29314 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
29316 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
29318 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
29319 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
29320 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
29321 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
29322 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
29323 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
29324 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
29325 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
29328 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
29329 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
29330 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
29331 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
29334 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
29335 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
29336 ask them to resolve the host "".
29339 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
29340 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
29341 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
29342 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
29343 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
29344 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
29345 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
29346 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
29347 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
29348 clients don't use this yet.)
29349 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
29350 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
29351 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
29352 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
29353 for pointing out this bug.)
29354 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
29355 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
29356 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
29357 kazaa, gnutella ports.
29358 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
29360 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
29361 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
29362 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
29363 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
29364 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
29365 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
29366 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
29367 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
29368 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
29369 wolf unpredictably.
29370 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
29371 that's still handshaking.
29372 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
29373 you'll choose it for your path.
29374 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
29375 end relay cell, etc.
29376 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
29377 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
29378 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
29381 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
29382 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
29384 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
29385 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
29386 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
29387 list to decide who's running or verified.
29388 - Bugfixes and features:
29389 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
29390 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
29391 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
29392 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
29393 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
29394 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
29396 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
29397 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
29398 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
29399 know you might want to get it verified.
29400 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
29403 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
29405 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
29406 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
29407 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
29408 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
29410 o Protocol changes:
29411 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
29412 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
29413 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
29414 hadn't heard of before.
29417 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
29418 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
29419 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
29420 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
29421 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
29422 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
29423 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
29424 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
29425 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
29426 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
29427 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
29428 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
29429 - Directory caching.
29430 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
29431 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
29432 directory they've pulled down.
29433 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
29434 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
29435 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
29436 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
29437 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
29438 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
29439 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
29441 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
29442 This isn't used yet.
29443 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
29444 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
29445 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
29446 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
29447 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
29448 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
29449 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
29450 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
29451 - File and name management:
29452 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
29453 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
29455 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
29456 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
29457 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
29458 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
29459 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
29460 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
29461 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
29463 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
29464 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
29465 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
29466 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
29467 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
29469 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
29470 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
29471 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
29472 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
29473 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
29474 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
29475 - New docs in the tarball:
29477 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
29480 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
29481 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
29482 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
29485 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
29486 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
29487 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
29490 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
29491 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
29494 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
29495 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
29496 - Make it build on Win32 again.
29497 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
29498 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
29502 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
29504 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
29505 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
29506 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
29507 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
29508 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
29509 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
29510 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
29511 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
29512 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
29513 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
29516 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
29519 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
29520 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
29521 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
29522 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
29524 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
29525 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
29526 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
29528 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
29529 hidden service per 15-minute period.
29530 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
29531 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
29532 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
29533 o Fixes for security bugs:
29534 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
29535 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
29536 a trusted dirserver.
29538 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
29539 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
29540 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
29541 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
29542 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
29543 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
29544 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
29545 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
29546 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
29547 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
29549 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
29550 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
29551 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
29552 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
29554 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
29555 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
29556 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
29557 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
29558 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
29559 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
29560 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
29561 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
29562 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
29563 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
29564 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
29565 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
29566 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
29569 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
29570 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
29571 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
29572 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29575 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
29576 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
29577 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
29578 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
29579 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
29580 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29581 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
29585 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
29586 [version bump only]
29589 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
29590 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
29591 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
29592 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
29593 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
29595 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
29598 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
29599 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
29600 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
29601 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
29602 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
29603 o Better debugging for tls errors
29604 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
29605 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
29606 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
29607 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
29608 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
29609 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
29610 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
29611 o win32's close can't close a socket.
29614 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
29615 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
29616 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
29617 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
29618 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
29619 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
29620 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
29621 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
29622 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
29623 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
29624 just close the circ.
29625 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
29626 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
29627 (this was quite rare).
29630 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
29631 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
29632 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
29633 if you decrypted them correctly.
29634 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
29635 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
29636 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
29639 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
29640 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
29641 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
29642 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
29643 a second one and it works.
29644 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
29645 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
29646 alice would just have to wait to time out.
29647 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
29648 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
29649 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
29650 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
29651 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
29652 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
29653 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
29654 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
29655 i'd still like to find the bug though.
29656 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
29658 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
29662 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
29663 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
29664 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
29665 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
29666 he retries a couple of times
29667 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
29668 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
29669 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
29670 too long (they were sticking around forever).
29671 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
29675 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
29676 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
29677 - make hup work again
29678 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
29679 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
29680 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
29681 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
29682 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
29683 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
29685 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
29686 o changes from 0.0.5:
29687 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
29688 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
29689 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
29690 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
29691 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
29693 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
29694 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
29695 in-memory directories too
29698 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
29699 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
29702 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
29704 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
29705 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
29706 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
29707 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
29710 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
29711 [version bump only]
29714 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
29715 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
29717 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
29718 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
29719 but that aren't warnings
29722 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
29723 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
29724 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
29725 the dns farm to do it.
29726 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
29727 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
29729 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
29730 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
29731 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
29734 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
29735 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
29736 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
29737 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
29738 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
29739 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
29740 expect it to have a nickname.
29741 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
29742 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
29745 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
29746 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
29750 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
29751 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
29752 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
29753 - include missing header fcntl.h
29754 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
29755 - deal with hardware word alignment
29756 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
29757 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
29758 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
29759 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
29760 by kill -USR1 currently.
29761 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
29762 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
29763 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
29766 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
29767 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
29768 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
29771 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
29773 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
29774 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
29775 - And fix a few endian issues.
29778 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
29780 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
29781 try that circuit again: try a new one.
29782 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
29783 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
29784 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
29785 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
29786 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
29787 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
29789 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
29790 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
29791 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
29793 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
29795 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
29796 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
29797 side isn't reading right then.
29798 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
29799 RecommendedVersions
29800 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
29801 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
29802 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
29805 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
29807 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
29808 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
29811 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
29815 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
29817 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
29818 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
29819 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
29820 connection is finished.
29821 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
29822 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
29823 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
29824 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
29825 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
29826 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
29827 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
29828 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
29829 rather than warn and continue.
29830 - Make --version work
29831 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
29834 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
29836 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
29837 knows it's working.
29838 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
29839 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
29841 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
29842 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
29843 so you can collect coredumps there.
29845 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
29846 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
29847 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
29848 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
29849 dns cache actually gets populated.
29850 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
29851 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
29852 end cell down it first.
29853 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
29854 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
29857 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
29859 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
29860 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
29862 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
29863 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
29864 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
29865 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
29866 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
29867 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
29869 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
29871 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
29872 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
29873 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
29874 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
29875 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
29876 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
29878 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
29879 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
29882 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
29884 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
29885 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
29886 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
29887 tor. It even has a man page.
29888 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
29889 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
29890 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
29891 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
29893 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
29895 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
29898 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
29900 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
29901 it, apt-getters. :)
29902 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
29903 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
29904 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
29905 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
29906 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
29907 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
29908 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
29909 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
29910 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
29911 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
29912 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
29914 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
29915 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
29918 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
29920 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
29921 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
29924 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
29926 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
29927 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
29928 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
29929 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
29930 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
29931 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
29932 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
29933 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
29934 logfile so you know it's working.
29935 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
29936 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
29939 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
29941 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
29942 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
29943 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
29946 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
29948 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
29949 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
29950 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
29953 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
29954 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
29955 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
29957 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
29958 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
29960 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
29961 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
29962 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
29964 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
29965 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
29969 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
29971 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
29972 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
29973 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
29976 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
29977 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
29978 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
29979 - Add port ranges to exit policies
29980 - Add a conservative default exit policy
29981 - Warn if you're running tor as root
29982 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
29983 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
29984 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
29985 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
29987 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
29990 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
29991 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29992 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
29993 really screw things up.
29994 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
29996 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
29997 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
29999 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
30000 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
30001 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
30002 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
30003 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
30004 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
30007 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
30010 - Change default loglevel to warn.
30011 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
30012 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
30014 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
30017 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
30018 o Robustness and bugfixes:
30019 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
30020 - to get ownership/permissions right
30021 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
30022 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
30023 pull down a directory again
30024 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
30025 causing server crashes
30026 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
30027 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
30028 - exit if bind() fails
30029 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
30030 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
30031 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
30032 - fix minor bias in PRNG
30033 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
30036 - Wrote the design document (woo)
30038 o Circuit building and exit policies:
30039 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
30041 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
30042 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
30043 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
30044 exists, rather than failing
30045 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
30046 which AP connections are standing by
30047 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
30048 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
30049 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
30051 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
30052 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
30055 - APPort is now called SocksPort
30056 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
30058 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
30059 hardcoded (for dirservers)
30060 - Reloads config on HUP
30061 - Usage info on -h or --help
30062 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
30065 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
30066 o General stability:
30067 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
30068 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
30069 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
30070 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
30071 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
30072 to take down the network when I approve a new router
30073 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
30076 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
30077 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
30079 o Autoconf improvements:
30080 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
30081 - Make install now works
30082 - create var/lib/tor on make install
30083 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
30084 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
30086 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
30087 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
30088 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
30089 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup