1 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-1?
4 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
5 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
6 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
7 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
10 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
11 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
12 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
13 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
14 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
15 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
18 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
19 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
20 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
24 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
25 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
26 from the 0.4.6.x series.
28 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
29 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
30 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
31 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
32 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
34 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
35 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
36 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
38 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
39 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
40 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
42 o Minor features (geoip data):
43 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
44 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
46 o Minor features (onion services):
47 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
48 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
49 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
51 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
52 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
53 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
56 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
57 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
58 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
59 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
61 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
62 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
63 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
64 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
66 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
67 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
68 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
70 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
71 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
72 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
73 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
75 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
76 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
77 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
78 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
80 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
81 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
82 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
86 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
87 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
90 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
91 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
92 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
93 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
94 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
95 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
96 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
97 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
98 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
101 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
102 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
105 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
106 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
108 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
109 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
110 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
111 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
112 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
113 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
114 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
115 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
116 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
119 o Minor features (geoip data):
120 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
121 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
122 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
123 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
124 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
125 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
126 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
129 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
130 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
131 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
132 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
133 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
135 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
136 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
137 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
139 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
140 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
141 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
142 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
143 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
145 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
146 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
147 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
149 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
150 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
151 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
153 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
154 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
155 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
157 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
158 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
159 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
160 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
161 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
162 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
163 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
164 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
166 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
167 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
171 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
172 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
173 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
174 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
175 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
176 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
177 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
178 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
179 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
180 welcoming approach to growing our community.
182 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
183 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
184 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
185 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
186 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
187 smaller features and bugfixes.
189 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
190 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
192 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
193 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
194 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
195 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
197 o Minor features (protocol versions):
198 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
199 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
200 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
201 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
204 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
205 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
206 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
207 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
208 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
209 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
211 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
212 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
213 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
215 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
216 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
217 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
218 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
219 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
221 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
222 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
223 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
224 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
225 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
229 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
230 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
231 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
232 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
233 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
235 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
236 release, though of course that could change.
238 o Major feature (exit):
239 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
240 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
241 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
244 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
245 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
246 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
250 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
251 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
252 several bugs present in previous releases.
254 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
255 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
257 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
258 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
259 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
261 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
262 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
263 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
264 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
265 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
267 o Minor feature (build system):
268 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
269 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
270 this. Closes ticket 40227.
272 o Minor features (authority, logging):
273 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
274 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
276 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
277 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
280 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
281 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
282 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
283 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
284 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
285 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
286 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
288 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
289 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
290 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
291 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
292 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
295 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
296 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
297 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
298 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
300 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
301 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
302 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
303 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
306 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
307 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
308 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
311 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
312 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
313 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
314 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
316 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
317 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
318 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
319 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
320 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
323 o Minor features (crypto):
324 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
325 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
326 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
327 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
328 weasel for diagnosing this.
330 o Minor features (documentation):
331 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
332 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
333 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
335 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
336 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
337 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
338 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
339 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
340 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
343 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
344 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
345 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
346 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
347 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
349 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
350 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
351 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
353 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
354 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
355 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
357 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
358 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
359 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
360 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
361 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
364 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
365 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
366 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
367 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
370 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
371 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
372 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
373 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
374 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
375 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
378 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
379 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
380 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
381 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
382 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
383 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
384 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
386 o Minor features (compilation):
387 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
388 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
389 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
390 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
392 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
393 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
394 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
395 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
396 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
398 o Minor features (safety):
399 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
400 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
403 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
404 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
405 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
406 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
407 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
408 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
410 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
411 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
412 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
413 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
414 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
415 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
416 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
417 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
418 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
420 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
421 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
422 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
423 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
424 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
425 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
427 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
428 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
429 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
430 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
431 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
432 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
433 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
435 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
436 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
437 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
438 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
440 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
441 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
442 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
444 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
445 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
446 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
448 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
449 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
450 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
451 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
452 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
453 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
454 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
456 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
457 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
458 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
459 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
460 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
461 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
462 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
464 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
465 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
466 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
468 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
469 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
471 o Removed features (controller):
472 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
473 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
476 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
477 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
478 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
479 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
480 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
481 intended for a different relay.
483 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
484 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
485 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
486 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
487 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
488 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
489 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
491 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
492 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
493 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
494 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
495 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
496 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
497 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
498 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
499 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
500 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
501 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
503 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
504 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
505 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
506 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
509 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
510 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
511 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
513 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
514 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
515 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
517 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
518 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
519 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
520 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
521 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
522 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
524 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
525 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
526 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
528 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
529 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
530 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
533 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
534 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
535 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
536 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
539 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
540 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
541 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
542 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
543 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
545 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
546 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
547 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
550 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
551 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
552 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
553 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
555 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
556 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
557 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
558 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
559 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
560 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
561 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
563 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
564 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
565 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
566 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
567 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
570 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
571 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
572 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
573 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
574 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
575 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
577 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
578 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
579 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
580 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
583 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
584 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
585 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
586 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
588 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
589 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
590 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
592 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
593 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
594 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
596 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
597 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
598 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
599 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
600 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
602 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
603 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
604 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
606 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
607 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
608 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
609 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
610 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
611 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
612 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
614 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
615 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
616 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
619 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
620 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
621 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
622 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
623 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
624 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
627 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
628 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
629 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
630 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
632 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
633 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
634 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
635 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
637 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
638 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
639 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
641 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
642 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
645 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
646 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
647 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
648 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
649 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
650 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
651 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
654 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
655 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
656 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
657 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
658 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
660 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
661 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
662 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
663 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
665 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
666 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
667 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
668 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
669 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
670 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
671 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
673 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
674 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
675 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
676 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
677 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
680 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
681 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
682 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
683 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
684 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
685 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
687 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
688 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
689 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
690 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
692 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
693 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
694 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
695 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
698 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
699 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
700 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
701 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
703 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
704 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
705 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
707 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
708 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
709 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
711 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
712 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
713 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
714 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
715 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
717 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
718 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
719 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
721 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
722 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
723 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
724 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
725 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
726 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
727 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
729 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
730 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
731 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
734 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
735 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
736 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
737 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
738 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
739 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
742 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
743 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
744 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
745 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
747 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
748 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
749 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
750 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
752 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
753 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
754 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
756 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
757 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
761 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
762 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
763 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
766 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
767 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
768 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
769 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
770 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
771 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
772 series soon, after it has had some testing.
774 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
776 o Major features (build):
777 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
778 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
779 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
780 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
781 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
783 o Major features (metrics):
784 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
785 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
786 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
787 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
788 information and security considerations.
789 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
790 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
791 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
793 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
794 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
795 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
796 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
797 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
798 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
799 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
800 use. Closes ticket 33220.
801 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
802 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
803 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
806 o Major features (tracing):
807 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
808 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
809 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
810 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
811 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
813 o Major bugfixes (security):
814 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
815 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
816 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
817 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
818 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
819 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
821 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
822 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
823 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
824 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
825 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
826 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
828 o Minor features (address discovery):
829 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
830 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
831 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
832 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
834 o Minor features (admin tools):
835 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
836 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
837 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
840 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
841 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
842 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
843 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
844 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
845 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
847 o Minor features (build):
848 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
849 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
850 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
851 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
852 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
854 o Minor features (configuration):
855 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
856 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
857 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
858 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
859 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
860 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
862 o Minor features (control port):
863 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
864 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
865 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
866 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
868 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
869 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
870 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
873 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
874 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
875 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
876 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
877 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
878 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
879 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
881 o Minor features (directory authorities):
882 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
883 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
884 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
885 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
886 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
887 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
888 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
889 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
891 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
892 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
893 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
894 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
895 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
896 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
897 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
898 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
899 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
900 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
901 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
902 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
903 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
904 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
905 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
907 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
908 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
909 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
910 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
912 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
913 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
914 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
915 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
917 o Minor features (heartbeat):
918 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
919 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
921 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
922 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
923 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
925 o Minor features (logging):
926 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
927 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
928 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
929 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
930 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
931 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
933 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
934 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
935 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
936 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
938 o Minor features (onion services):
939 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
940 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
941 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
943 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
944 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
945 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
946 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
947 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
948 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
950 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
951 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
952 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
953 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
954 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
955 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
956 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
958 o Minor features (relay):
959 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
960 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
961 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
962 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
963 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
966 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
967 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
968 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
971 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
972 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
973 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
974 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
975 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
976 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
977 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
978 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
979 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
981 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
982 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
984 o Minor features (specification update):
985 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
986 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
987 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
989 o Minor features (state management):
990 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
991 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
992 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
993 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
994 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
996 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
997 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
998 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
999 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
1000 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
1002 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
1003 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1004 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1005 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1006 closes ticket 40133.
1007 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
1008 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
1010 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1011 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
1012 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
1013 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
1014 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
1016 o Minor features (testing):
1017 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
1018 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1020 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
1021 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1022 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1024 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1025 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1026 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1028 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1029 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
1030 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
1031 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
1033 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
1034 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
1035 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1036 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
1037 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
1038 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
1039 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
1040 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
1041 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1043 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1044 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1045 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1046 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1047 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1048 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1049 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1051 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1052 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
1053 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
1054 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1055 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1056 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1058 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1059 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
1060 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
1061 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
1064 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1065 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
1066 when a stream is attached with the purpose
1067 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
1068 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1070 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1071 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1072 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1073 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
1074 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
1075 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
1076 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
1077 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
1080 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
1081 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1082 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1085 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
1086 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
1087 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
1088 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1089 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
1090 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
1091 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1093 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
1094 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
1095 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
1096 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
1097 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
1098 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1100 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
1101 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
1102 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1104 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
1105 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
1106 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1107 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
1108 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
1109 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
1110 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
1111 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1113 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
1114 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1115 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1116 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1118 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1119 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
1120 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
1121 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
1122 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
1123 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
1124 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
1125 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
1126 Closes ticket 34200.
1127 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
1128 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
1129 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
1130 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
1131 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
1132 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
1133 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
1135 - Split implementation of several command line options from
1136 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
1137 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
1138 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
1139 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
1140 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
1143 o Deprecated features:
1144 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
1145 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
1146 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
1149 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
1150 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
1153 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
1154 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
1155 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
1156 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
1158 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
1159 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
1161 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
1162 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
1163 directory. Closes part of 40139.
1164 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
1165 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
1169 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
1170 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1172 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
1173 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
1174 31699; Patch by @bduszel
1176 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
1177 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
1178 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
1179 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
1180 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
1182 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
1183 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
1184 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
1185 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
1186 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
1188 o Documentation (manual page):
1189 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
1190 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
1191 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
1192 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
1194 o Documentation (tracing):
1195 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
1196 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
1199 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
1200 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
1201 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
1202 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
1203 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
1204 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
1205 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
1207 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1208 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1209 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1210 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
1211 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
1213 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
1214 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
1215 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
1217 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1218 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1220 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
1221 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
1222 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
1223 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
1224 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
1225 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1227 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
1228 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1229 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1230 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1231 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1233 o Minor features (control port):
1234 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
1235 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
1236 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1238 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
1239 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
1240 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
1241 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
1242 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
1243 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
1245 o Minor features (tests):
1246 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1247 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1248 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1250 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
1251 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
1252 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1254 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1255 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1256 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1257 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1260 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
1261 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
1262 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
1265 o Major features (fallback directory list):
1266 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1267 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1268 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1270 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
1271 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1272 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1273 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1274 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1277 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1278 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
1279 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
1280 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
1281 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
1283 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
1284 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
1285 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
1286 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
1289 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
1290 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1291 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1292 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1293 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1294 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1298 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
1299 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
1300 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
1303 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1304 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1305 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1306 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1307 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1308 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
1311 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
1312 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
1313 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
1315 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1316 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1317 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1318 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1319 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1320 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1321 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1324 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1325 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1326 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1327 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1330 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1331 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1332 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1333 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1334 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1335 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1337 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1338 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1339 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1340 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1341 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1342 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1344 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1345 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1346 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1348 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1349 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1350 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1351 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1354 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1355 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1356 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1357 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1360 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1361 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1362 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1363 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1364 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1366 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1367 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1368 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1370 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1371 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1372 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1373 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1374 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1377 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1378 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1379 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1380 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1381 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1382 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1384 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1385 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1386 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1387 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1389 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1390 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1391 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1392 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1395 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1396 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1397 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1398 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1399 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1400 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1401 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1402 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1406 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
1407 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
1408 several that affect usability and portability.
1410 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1411 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1412 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1413 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1414 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1415 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1416 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1419 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1420 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1421 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1422 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1425 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1426 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1427 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1428 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1429 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1430 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1432 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
1433 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1434 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1435 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1436 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1438 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1439 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1440 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1441 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1443 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1444 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1445 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1446 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1447 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1448 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1450 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1451 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1452 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1454 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1455 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1456 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1457 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1460 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1461 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1462 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1463 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1466 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1467 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1468 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1469 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1470 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1471 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1474 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1475 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1476 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1478 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1479 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1480 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1481 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1483 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1484 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1485 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1486 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1487 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1490 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1491 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1492 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1493 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1494 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1495 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1497 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
1498 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
1499 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
1500 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
1501 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1503 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1504 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1505 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1506 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1508 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1509 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1510 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1511 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1513 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1514 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1515 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1516 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1519 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1520 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1521 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1522 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1523 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1524 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1525 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1526 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1530 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
1531 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
1532 some affecting usability.
1534 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1535 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1536 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1537 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1538 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1539 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1540 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1543 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1544 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1545 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1546 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1549 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1550 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1551 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1553 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1554 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1555 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1556 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1559 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1560 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1561 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1563 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1564 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
1565 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
1566 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1568 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1569 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1570 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1571 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1573 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1574 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
1575 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1577 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1578 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
1579 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1580 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1581 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1583 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1584 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1585 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1587 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1588 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1589 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1590 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1592 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1593 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1597 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
1598 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
1599 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
1600 compatibility, and portability issues.
1602 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1603 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1604 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1605 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1606 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1607 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1608 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1611 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
1612 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1613 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1614 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1617 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1618 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
1619 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
1620 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
1621 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
1624 o Minor features (directory authority):
1625 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
1626 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
1627 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
1628 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
1629 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
1631 o Minor features (entry guards):
1632 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
1633 Closes ticket 40001.
1635 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
1636 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
1637 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
1638 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
1639 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
1640 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
1641 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
1643 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
1644 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1645 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1647 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
1648 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
1649 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1651 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
1652 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
1653 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
1656 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1657 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1658 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1660 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
1661 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
1662 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
1663 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1665 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1666 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1667 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1668 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1670 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1671 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
1672 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
1675 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
1676 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1679 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
1680 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
1681 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
1682 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
1683 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
1684 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
1685 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
1686 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1689 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
1690 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
1691 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
1692 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
1693 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
1694 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
1696 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
1698 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
1699 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
1700 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
1701 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
1702 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
1703 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
1704 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
1705 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
1706 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
1707 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
1709 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
1710 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
1711 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
1712 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
1713 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
1714 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
1715 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
1717 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
1719 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
1720 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
1721 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
1722 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
1724 o Major features (v3 onion services):
1725 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
1726 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
1727 Closes ticket 32709.
1729 o Minor feature (developer tools):
1730 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
1731 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
1733 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
1734 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
1735 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
1736 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
1739 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
1740 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
1741 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1743 o Minor feature (python scripts):
1744 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
1745 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
1746 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
1747 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
1749 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
1750 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
1751 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
1752 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
1753 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
1755 o Minor features (code safety):
1756 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
1757 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
1758 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
1759 Resolves issue 33788.
1761 o Minor features (compilation size):
1762 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
1763 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
1765 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1766 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
1767 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
1768 Resolves ticket 32143.
1770 o Minor features (control port):
1771 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
1772 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
1773 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
1774 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1776 o Minor features (developer tooling):
1777 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
1778 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
1779 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
1780 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
1781 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
1783 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
1784 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
1785 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
1786 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
1788 o Minor features (directory):
1789 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
1790 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
1791 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
1794 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
1795 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
1796 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
1798 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
1799 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
1800 Closes ticket 33901.
1802 o Minor features (logging):
1803 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
1804 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
1806 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
1807 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
1808 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
1809 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
1810 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
1811 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
1812 up from ticket 33316.
1814 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
1815 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
1816 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
1817 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1819 o Minor features (windows):
1820 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
1821 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
1823 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
1824 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
1825 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1826 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1827 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1829 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
1830 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
1831 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
1832 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
1834 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
1835 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1836 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1837 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1840 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
1841 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
1842 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
1843 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
1844 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
1845 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1847 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1848 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
1849 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
1850 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1852 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
1853 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
1854 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
1855 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
1856 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1858 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
1859 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
1860 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1862 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
1863 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
1864 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
1865 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
1866 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
1867 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1868 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
1869 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
1870 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
1871 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1873 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
1874 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
1875 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
1876 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1878 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
1879 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
1880 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
1881 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
1882 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1884 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
1885 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
1886 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1888 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
1889 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
1890 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
1892 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
1893 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
1894 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1896 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
1897 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
1898 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1901 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
1902 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
1903 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1905 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1906 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1907 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1909 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
1910 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
1911 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
1914 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1915 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1916 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1917 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1919 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1920 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
1921 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
1922 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
1923 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1924 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
1925 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
1926 isolated in subsystems of their own.
1927 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
1928 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
1929 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
1930 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
1932 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
1933 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1934 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
1935 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
1939 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
1940 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
1941 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1942 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1946 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
1947 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
1948 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
1949 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
1950 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1951 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
1952 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
1955 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
1956 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
1957 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
1958 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
1959 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
1960 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1961 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
1962 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
1964 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
1965 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1967 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1968 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1969 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1970 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
1971 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
1972 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
1973 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
1974 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
1975 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
1976 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
1977 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1978 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1980 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
1981 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
1982 code. Closes ticket 33014.
1984 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
1985 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
1986 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
1988 o Documentation (manual page):
1989 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
1990 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
1991 Google Season of Docs.
1992 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
1993 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
1994 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
1995 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1996 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
1997 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
1998 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
1999 Closes ticket 33778.
2002 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
2003 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
2004 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
2005 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
2006 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
2007 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
2010 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2011 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2012 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2013 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
2014 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
2016 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
2017 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
2018 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
2021 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2022 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2024 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
2025 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2026 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2027 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2028 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2029 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
2032 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2033 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
2034 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2035 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
2036 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
2037 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
2041 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
2042 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2043 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
2044 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
2046 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
2047 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2048 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2049 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2050 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2051 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2053 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
2054 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
2055 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
2056 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
2057 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
2059 o Minor features (testing):
2060 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2061 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2062 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2063 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2064 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2066 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
2067 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
2068 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
2069 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2071 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
2072 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
2073 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
2074 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2076 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2077 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
2078 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
2079 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
2081 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
2082 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
2083 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
2084 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
2085 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2086 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
2087 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
2088 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
2089 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
2090 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
2091 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2093 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
2094 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2095 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2096 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2097 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2098 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2100 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2101 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
2102 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
2103 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
2104 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
2105 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
2108 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2109 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
2110 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
2111 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
2112 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2113 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
2114 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
2115 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
2117 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2118 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
2119 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
2122 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
2123 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
2124 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
2125 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
2126 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
2130 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2131 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2132 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2133 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2134 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2135 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2136 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2140 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
2141 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
2142 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
2143 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
2144 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
2145 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
2146 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
2147 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
2148 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
2149 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
2150 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
2153 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2154 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2155 as soon as packages are available.
2157 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
2158 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2159 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2160 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2161 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2162 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2163 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2164 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2165 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2167 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
2168 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2169 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2170 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2171 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2173 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2174 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2175 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2176 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2177 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2179 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2180 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
2181 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
2182 code. Closes ticket 33290.
2184 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2185 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2186 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
2187 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2189 o Minor features (usability):
2190 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
2191 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
2192 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
2194 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
2195 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2196 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2197 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2200 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
2201 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
2202 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
2203 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
2204 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2206 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2207 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
2210 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
2211 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2212 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2213 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2216 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2217 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2218 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2219 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2222 o Documentation (manpage):
2223 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
2224 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
2225 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2226 Google Season of Docs.
2227 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
2228 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
2230 o Testing (Travis CI):
2231 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2232 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2233 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2235 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2236 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2237 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2238 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2239 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2242 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
2243 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2244 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2245 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
2246 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
2247 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
2248 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
2249 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
2250 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
2251 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
2252 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
2253 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2255 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2256 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2257 as soon as packages are available.
2259 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2260 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2261 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2262 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2263 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2264 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2265 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2266 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2267 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2269 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2270 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2271 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2272 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2273 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2275 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2276 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2277 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2278 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2279 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2281 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2282 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2283 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2284 Closes ticket 33075.
2286 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2287 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2288 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2290 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2291 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2292 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2293 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2294 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2297 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2298 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2299 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2300 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2303 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2304 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2305 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2306 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2308 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2309 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2310 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2311 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2313 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2314 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2315 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2316 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2317 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2320 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
2321 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
2322 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
2323 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
2324 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
2325 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
2326 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
2327 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
2328 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
2329 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
2330 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
2331 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2333 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2334 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2335 as soon as packages are available.
2337 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2338 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2339 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2340 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2341 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2342 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2343 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2344 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2345 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2347 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2348 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2349 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2350 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2351 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2353 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2354 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2355 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2357 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2358 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2359 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2360 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2361 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2364 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2365 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2366 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2367 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2370 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2371 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2372 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2373 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2375 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2376 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2377 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2378 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2380 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2381 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2382 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2383 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2384 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2387 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
2388 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
2389 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
2390 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
2391 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
2392 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
2393 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
2394 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
2395 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
2396 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
2397 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
2400 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2401 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2402 as soon as packages are available.
2404 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2405 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2406 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2407 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2408 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2409 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2410 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2411 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2412 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2414 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2415 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2416 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2417 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2418 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
2419 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2420 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2421 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2424 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2425 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2426 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2427 Closes ticket 33075.
2429 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2430 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2431 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2433 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2434 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2435 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2436 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2437 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2439 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2440 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2441 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2442 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2443 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2446 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2447 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2448 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2449 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2452 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2453 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2454 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2455 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2457 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2458 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2459 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2460 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2461 Closes ticket 32629.
2462 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2463 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2464 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2466 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2467 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2469 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2470 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2471 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2472 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2474 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2475 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2476 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2477 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2480 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
2481 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
2482 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
2483 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
2486 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
2487 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
2488 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
2489 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2491 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2492 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
2493 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
2494 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
2496 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2497 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
2498 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
2499 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2500 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2501 Closes ticket 33075.
2503 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2504 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
2505 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2507 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2508 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
2509 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2510 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
2512 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
2513 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
2514 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2516 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2517 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2518 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2519 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2520 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2522 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
2523 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
2524 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
2525 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2527 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
2528 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
2529 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
2530 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2532 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
2533 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
2534 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
2535 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
2538 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2539 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
2540 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
2541 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2543 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
2544 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2545 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2546 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2548 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
2549 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
2550 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
2551 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
2552 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
2554 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
2555 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
2556 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
2558 o Documentation (manpage):
2559 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
2560 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
2561 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2564 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
2565 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2566 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
2567 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
2568 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
2569 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
2571 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2572 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2573 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2574 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2575 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2576 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2577 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2578 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2580 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2581 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2582 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2584 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2585 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
2586 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
2587 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2589 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2590 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
2591 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
2592 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2594 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2595 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
2596 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
2597 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2598 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
2599 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
2602 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2603 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2604 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2606 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2607 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2608 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2609 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2610 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2611 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2612 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2613 Closes ticket 32629.
2615 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2616 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2619 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
2620 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
2621 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
2622 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
2623 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
2624 current version of 0.4.1.x.
2626 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2627 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2628 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2629 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2630 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2631 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2632 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2633 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2635 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2636 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2637 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2639 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
2640 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2641 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2642 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2643 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2645 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2646 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2647 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2649 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2650 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2651 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2652 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2653 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2654 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2655 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2656 Closes ticket 32629.
2658 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2659 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2662 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
2663 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
2664 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
2665 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
2666 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
2667 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
2668 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
2669 write better code in the future.
2671 o New system requirements:
2672 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
2673 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
2674 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
2676 o Major features (build system):
2677 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
2678 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
2679 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
2680 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
2681 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
2683 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
2684 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
2685 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
2686 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
2687 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2689 o Major features (onion service, controller):
2690 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
2691 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
2692 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
2693 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
2695 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
2696 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
2697 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
2698 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
2700 o Major features (proxy):
2701 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
2702 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
2703 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
2704 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
2705 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
2706 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
2708 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
2709 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2710 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2711 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2712 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2713 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2714 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2715 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2717 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2718 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2719 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2721 o Major bugfixes (networking):
2722 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
2723 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
2724 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2726 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
2727 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
2728 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
2729 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
2730 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
2731 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2733 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
2734 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
2735 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
2737 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
2738 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
2739 message. Closes ticket 31371.
2741 o Minor features (configuration validation):
2742 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
2743 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
2744 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
2745 Closes ticket 31241.
2747 o Minor features (configuration):
2748 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
2749 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
2751 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
2752 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
2753 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
2754 Implements ticket 32404.
2756 o Minor features (controller):
2757 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
2758 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
2759 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
2761 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2762 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2763 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2764 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2766 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2767 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
2768 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
2771 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2772 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
2773 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
2774 Closes ticket 32772.
2776 o Minor features (developer tools):
2777 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
2778 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
2779 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
2780 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
2781 target. Closes ticket 31919.
2782 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
2783 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
2784 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
2786 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
2787 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
2788 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
2789 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
2791 o Minor features (Doxygen):
2792 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
2793 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
2794 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
2796 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
2797 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
2798 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
2799 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
2800 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
2801 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
2802 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
2803 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
2805 o Minor features (git scripts):
2806 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
2807 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
2808 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
2809 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
2810 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
2811 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
2812 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
2813 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
2814 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
2815 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
2816 Closes ticket 32216.
2817 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
2818 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
2819 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
2820 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
2822 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
2823 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
2824 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
2825 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
2826 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
2827 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
2829 o Minor features (portability, android):
2830 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
2831 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
2832 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
2834 o Minor features (relay modularity):
2835 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
2836 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
2837 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
2838 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2839 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
2840 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
2841 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
2843 o Minor features (relay):
2844 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
2845 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
2847 o Minor features (release tools):
2848 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
2849 Closes ticket 32704.
2851 o Minor features (testing):
2852 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
2853 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
2854 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
2855 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
2856 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
2857 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
2860 o Minor features (tests, Android):
2861 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
2862 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
2863 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
2865 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2866 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2867 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2869 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2870 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
2871 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2873 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
2874 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
2875 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
2876 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2878 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2879 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
2880 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
2881 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
2882 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
2883 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
2884 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
2885 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
2886 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
2887 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
2888 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2889 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
2890 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
2891 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
2892 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2894 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2895 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
2896 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
2899 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
2900 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
2901 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
2902 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2904 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
2905 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
2906 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2908 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
2909 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
2910 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
2911 Closes ticket 32213.
2912 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2913 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
2914 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2916 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2917 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2918 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2919 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2920 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2923 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2924 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
2926 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
2927 Closes ticket 32216.
2929 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
2930 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
2931 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
2932 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
2935 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
2936 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
2937 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
2938 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2940 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
2941 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
2942 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
2943 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
2944 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
2947 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
2948 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
2949 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
2950 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
2951 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
2952 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2954 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2955 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
2956 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
2957 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
2958 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2960 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
2961 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
2962 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2964 o Minor bugfixes (test):
2965 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
2966 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
2967 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
2970 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2971 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
2972 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2973 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
2974 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
2975 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2976 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
2977 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
2980 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2981 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
2982 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
2983 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
2984 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
2985 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2987 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
2988 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2989 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2991 o Deprecated features:
2992 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
2993 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
2994 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
2998 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
2999 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
3000 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
3001 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
3002 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
3003 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
3004 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
3005 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
3007 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
3008 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
3011 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
3012 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
3013 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
3014 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
3015 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
3016 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
3018 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
3019 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
3020 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
3021 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
3022 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
3025 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
3026 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
3028 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
3029 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
3030 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
3031 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
3032 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3033 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3034 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3035 Closes ticket 32629.
3036 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
3038 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3039 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3040 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3042 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
3043 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
3044 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
3046 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
3047 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
3048 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
3049 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
3050 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
3051 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
3052 Solves part of ticket 32339.
3053 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
3054 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
3055 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
3056 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
3057 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
3058 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
3059 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
3060 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
3061 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
3062 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
3064 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
3065 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
3067 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
3068 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
3069 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
3071 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
3072 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
3073 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
3074 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
3075 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
3076 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
3078 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
3079 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
3080 Closes ticket 32163.
3081 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
3083 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
3085 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3086 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
3087 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
3088 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
3089 Closes ticket 32304.
3090 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
3091 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
3092 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
3093 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
3094 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
3097 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
3098 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3100 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3103 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
3104 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
3105 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
3106 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3107 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
3108 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
3109 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
3110 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3112 o Documentation (manpage):
3113 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3115 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3117 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
3118 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
3119 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
3121 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
3122 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
3123 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3125 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
3126 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
3129 o Testing (continuous integration):
3130 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3133 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
3134 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
3135 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
3136 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
3137 bugs present in previous series.
3139 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
3140 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
3141 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3142 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3144 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
3145 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
3146 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3147 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3149 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3150 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3152 o Minor features (geoip):
3153 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3154 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3157 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
3158 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
3159 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3160 Closes ticket 32500.
3163 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
3164 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3165 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
3166 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3168 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3169 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
3170 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
3171 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
3173 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3174 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
3175 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
3176 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3178 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3179 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3180 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3181 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3182 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3183 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3184 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3185 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3187 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3188 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3189 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3190 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3191 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3193 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3194 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3195 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3196 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3197 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3200 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3201 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3202 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3203 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3205 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3206 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3207 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3209 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3210 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3211 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3213 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3214 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3215 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3216 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3217 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3218 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3220 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3221 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3222 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3223 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3225 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3226 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3227 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3228 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3229 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3230 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3231 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3232 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
3233 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
3234 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
3237 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3238 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
3239 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3240 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
3241 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3242 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3243 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3244 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3245 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3247 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3248 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3249 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3250 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3252 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3253 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3254 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3255 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3256 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3259 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3260 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
3261 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
3263 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3264 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3265 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3267 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3268 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3269 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3271 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3272 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3273 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3274 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3276 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3277 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3278 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3279 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3280 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3282 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3283 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
3284 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3286 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3287 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3288 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3291 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3292 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
3293 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
3295 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3296 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3297 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3298 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3300 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3301 Closes ticket 31859.
3302 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3303 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3305 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3306 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3307 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3308 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3309 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3310 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3311 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3312 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3313 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3314 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3316 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3317 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3318 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3319 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3320 Closes ticket 32500.
3323 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
3324 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
3325 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
3326 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
3327 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3329 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
3330 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
3331 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
3332 support until 1 Feb 2022.
3334 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3335 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3338 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3339 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3340 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3341 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3342 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3343 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3344 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3345 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3346 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3347 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3348 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3350 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3351 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3352 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3353 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3354 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3355 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3357 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3358 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3359 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3360 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3361 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3364 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3365 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3366 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3367 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3368 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3370 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3371 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3372 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3373 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3376 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3377 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3378 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3379 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3380 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3381 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3382 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3383 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3385 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3386 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3387 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3388 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3389 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3391 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3392 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3393 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3394 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3395 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3398 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3399 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3400 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3402 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3403 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3404 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3407 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3408 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3409 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3411 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3412 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3413 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3414 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3416 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3417 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3418 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3419 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3420 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3422 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3423 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3424 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3426 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3427 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3428 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3431 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3432 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3433 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3435 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3436 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3437 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3439 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3440 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3441 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3443 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3444 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3445 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3448 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3449 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3450 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3451 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3452 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3453 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3455 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3456 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3457 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3458 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3459 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3461 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3462 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3463 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3466 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3467 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3468 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3470 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3471 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3472 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3473 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3475 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3476 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3477 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3478 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3480 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3481 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3482 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3483 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3485 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3486 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3487 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3488 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3490 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3491 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3492 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3493 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3494 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3495 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3496 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3498 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3499 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3500 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3501 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3503 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3504 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3505 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3506 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3508 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3509 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3510 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3513 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3514 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3515 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3516 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3517 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3518 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3519 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3521 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3522 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3523 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3524 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3527 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3528 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3529 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3530 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3531 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3533 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3534 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3535 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3536 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3537 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3539 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3540 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3541 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3544 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3545 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3546 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3547 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3548 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3550 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3551 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3552 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3553 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3555 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3556 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3557 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3558 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3559 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3562 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3563 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3564 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3567 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3568 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3569 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3570 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3572 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3573 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3574 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3575 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3577 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3578 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3579 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3580 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3582 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3583 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3584 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3585 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3588 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3589 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3590 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3591 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3592 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3593 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3596 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3597 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3598 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3600 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3601 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3602 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3604 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3605 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3606 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3607 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3609 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3610 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3611 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3613 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3614 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3615 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3616 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3617 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3619 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3620 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3621 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3624 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3625 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3626 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3627 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3628 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3629 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3630 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3631 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3632 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3633 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3635 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3636 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3637 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3638 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3640 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3641 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3642 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3643 Resolves issue 29702.
3645 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3646 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3648 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3649 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3650 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3651 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3654 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3655 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3656 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3657 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3659 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3660 Closes ticket 31859.
3661 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3662 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3664 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3665 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3666 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3667 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3668 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3669 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3670 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3671 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3672 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3673 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3675 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3676 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3677 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3678 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3679 Closes ticket 32500.
3681 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
3682 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
3683 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
3686 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3687 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3690 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3691 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3692 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3693 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3694 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3695 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3696 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3697 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3698 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3699 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3700 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3702 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3703 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3704 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3705 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3706 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3707 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3709 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3710 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
3711 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
3712 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
3713 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
3714 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3716 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3717 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3718 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3719 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3720 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3723 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3724 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3725 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3726 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3727 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3729 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3730 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3731 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3732 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3735 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3736 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3737 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3738 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3739 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3741 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3742 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3743 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3744 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3745 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3748 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3749 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
3750 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
3751 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
3752 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
3753 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
3754 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
3755 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3757 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3758 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
3759 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
3760 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
3761 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
3764 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3765 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3766 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3768 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3769 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
3770 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
3773 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
3774 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
3775 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
3776 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
3778 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3779 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3780 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3783 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3784 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3785 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3787 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3788 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3789 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3790 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3792 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3793 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3794 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3795 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3796 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3798 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3799 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3800 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3802 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3803 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
3804 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
3805 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
3807 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3808 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3809 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3812 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3813 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
3814 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
3815 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
3816 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3817 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
3818 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
3819 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
3820 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
3821 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
3822 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
3823 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
3824 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3827 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3828 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3829 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3830 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3831 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3833 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3834 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3835 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3837 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3838 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3839 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3841 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3842 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3843 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3845 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3846 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3847 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3850 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3851 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3852 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3854 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3855 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3856 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3857 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3858 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3859 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3861 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3862 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3863 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3864 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3865 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3867 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3868 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3869 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3872 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3873 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
3874 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3876 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3877 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3878 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3880 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3881 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3882 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3883 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3885 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3886 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3887 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3888 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3890 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3891 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3892 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3893 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3895 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3896 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3897 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3898 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3900 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3901 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3902 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3903 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3904 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3905 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3906 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3908 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3909 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3910 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3911 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3913 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3914 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3915 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3916 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3918 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3919 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3920 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3923 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3924 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3925 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3926 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3927 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3928 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3929 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3931 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3932 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3933 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3934 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3937 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3938 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3939 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3940 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3941 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3943 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3944 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
3945 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3947 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3948 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
3949 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
3950 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
3951 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3952 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
3953 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
3954 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
3955 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3956 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
3957 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3959 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3960 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3961 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3962 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3963 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3965 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3966 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3967 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3970 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3971 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3972 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3973 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3974 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3976 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3977 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3978 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3979 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3981 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3982 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3983 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3984 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3985 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3988 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3989 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3990 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3993 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3994 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3995 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3996 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3998 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3999 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
4000 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
4001 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4003 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4004 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
4005 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4007 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4008 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4009 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4010 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4012 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4013 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4014 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4015 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4018 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4019 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4020 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4021 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4022 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4023 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4026 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4027 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4028 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4029 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4031 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4032 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4033 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4035 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4036 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4037 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4039 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4040 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4041 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4042 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4043 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4044 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4045 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4047 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4048 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4049 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4052 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4053 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4054 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4055 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4056 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4057 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4058 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4059 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4061 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4062 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4063 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4064 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4065 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4066 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4069 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4070 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4071 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4072 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4073 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4075 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
4076 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4077 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4078 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4079 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4080 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4081 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4082 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4084 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4085 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4086 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4089 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4090 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4091 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4092 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4093 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4094 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4095 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4096 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4097 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4098 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4100 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4101 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
4102 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
4103 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
4104 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
4105 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4107 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4108 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4109 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4110 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4112 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4113 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4114 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4115 Resolves issue 29702.
4117 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4118 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4120 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4121 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4122 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4123 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4126 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4127 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4128 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4129 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4131 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4132 Closes ticket 31859.
4133 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4134 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4136 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4137 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4138 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4139 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4140 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4141 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4142 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4143 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4144 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4145 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4147 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4148 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4149 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4150 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4151 Closes ticket 32500.
4153 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
4154 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
4155 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
4156 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
4158 o Minor features (build system):
4159 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
4160 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
4162 o Minor features (geoip):
4163 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4164 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
4166 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
4167 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4168 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4169 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4170 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4171 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4173 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
4174 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
4175 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4177 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4178 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
4179 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4181 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
4182 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4183 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4184 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4185 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4187 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
4188 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
4189 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
4190 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
4191 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4193 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
4194 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
4195 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4196 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
4197 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4199 o Testing (continuous integration):
4200 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4201 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4202 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4203 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4204 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4205 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4206 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4207 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4208 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4211 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
4212 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
4213 from earlier versions of Tor.
4215 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4216 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4217 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4218 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4219 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4220 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4221 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4222 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4224 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4225 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4226 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4227 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4228 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4231 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
4232 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
4233 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
4234 Closes ticket 29669.
4236 o Minor features (testing):
4237 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
4238 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
4239 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
4240 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
4242 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
4243 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4244 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4245 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4247 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4248 Closes ticket 31859.
4249 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4250 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4252 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4253 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
4254 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4255 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
4257 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
4258 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4259 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
4260 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
4261 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4263 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
4264 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4265 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4266 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4268 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4269 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
4270 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4272 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
4273 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4274 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4275 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4276 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4279 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
4280 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4281 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4283 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4284 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4285 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4287 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4288 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4289 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
4291 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4292 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4293 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4294 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4296 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
4297 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4298 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4301 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4302 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
4303 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4304 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
4305 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
4307 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
4308 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
4309 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
4310 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4313 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
4314 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4315 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
4316 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
4317 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
4318 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
4321 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
4322 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
4323 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
4324 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
4326 o Major features (directory authorities):
4327 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4328 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4329 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4331 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4332 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4333 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4334 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4336 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
4337 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4338 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4339 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4340 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4342 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
4343 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
4344 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
4345 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
4346 Closes ticket 31779.
4348 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4349 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4350 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4351 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4353 o Minor features (geoip):
4354 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4355 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
4357 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
4358 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
4359 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
4360 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
4361 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
4362 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
4363 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
4365 o Minor features (onion services v3):
4366 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
4367 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
4370 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
4371 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
4372 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4374 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4375 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
4376 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
4377 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4379 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4380 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4381 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
4382 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4384 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4385 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4386 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4387 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4388 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4389 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4390 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4391 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4392 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4393 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
4394 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4396 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
4397 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4398 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4399 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4401 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
4402 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
4403 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
4406 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
4407 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4408 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4410 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4411 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4412 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4413 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4415 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
4416 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4417 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4419 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4420 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
4421 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
4422 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
4423 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
4424 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
4425 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
4427 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
4431 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
4432 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
4434 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4435 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4436 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
4437 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
4438 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
4439 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
4442 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
4443 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4444 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
4445 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
4448 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4449 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4450 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4451 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4452 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4453 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4454 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4455 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4456 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4458 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4459 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4460 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4463 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4464 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4465 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4467 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4468 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4469 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4470 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4471 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4473 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4474 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4475 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4477 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4478 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4479 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
4480 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4482 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4483 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4484 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4485 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4488 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4489 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4490 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4491 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4492 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4494 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4495 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4496 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4499 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4500 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4501 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4503 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4504 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4505 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4506 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4507 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4508 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4510 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4511 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4512 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4513 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4514 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4515 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4516 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4517 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4518 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4519 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4521 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4522 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4523 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4524 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4527 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
4528 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
4529 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
4530 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
4531 Tor's stability and ease of development.
4533 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
4534 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
4535 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
4536 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
4537 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
4538 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
4541 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4542 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4543 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
4544 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
4545 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
4546 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
4549 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
4550 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4551 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4552 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4553 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4554 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4555 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4556 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4557 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4559 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4560 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
4561 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
4562 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
4563 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
4564 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
4565 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
4566 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
4567 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
4568 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
4569 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
4570 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
4571 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
4572 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
4573 files. Closes ticket 31175.
4575 o Minor features (build system):
4576 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
4577 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
4578 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
4580 o Minor features (compilation):
4581 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
4582 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
4583 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
4585 o Minor features (configuration):
4586 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
4587 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
4588 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
4589 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
4591 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4592 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
4593 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
4594 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
4596 o Minor features (debugging):
4597 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
4598 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
4599 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
4600 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
4602 o Minor features (git hooks):
4603 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
4604 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
4605 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
4606 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
4607 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
4609 o Minor features (git scripts):
4610 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
4611 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
4612 push. Closes ticket 31314.
4613 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
4614 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
4615 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
4616 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
4617 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
4618 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
4619 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
4620 Closes ticket 31314.
4621 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
4622 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
4623 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
4624 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
4625 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
4626 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
4627 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
4628 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
4629 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
4631 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
4632 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
4633 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
4636 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
4637 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
4638 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
4640 o Minor features (onion service v3):
4641 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
4642 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
4644 o Minor features (onion service):
4645 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
4646 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
4647 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
4648 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
4650 o Minor features (stem tests):
4651 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4652 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4655 o Minor features (testing):
4656 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
4657 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
4658 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
4659 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
4660 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
4661 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
4662 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
4663 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
4664 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
4665 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
4666 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
4668 o Minor features (token bucket):
4669 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
4670 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
4672 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4673 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
4674 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
4675 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4676 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
4677 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
4678 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
4679 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
4682 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4683 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4684 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4686 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
4687 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
4688 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
4689 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
4690 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
4691 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4693 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4694 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4695 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4696 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4697 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4699 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4700 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4701 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4703 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4704 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
4705 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
4706 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
4708 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
4709 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
4710 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
4711 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
4712 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
4713 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
4714 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
4715 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
4716 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
4717 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4719 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4720 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
4721 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
4724 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4725 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
4726 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4728 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4729 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4730 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4731 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4732 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4733 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4734 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4735 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4736 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4737 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4740 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
4741 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4742 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4743 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4746 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
4747 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
4748 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
4749 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4751 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4752 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
4753 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
4754 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4755 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
4756 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4757 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
4758 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
4759 Closes ticket 31678.
4761 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4762 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4763 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4764 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4765 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4767 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
4768 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
4769 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
4770 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
4771 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4772 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
4773 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
4774 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
4775 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
4778 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4779 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4780 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4782 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
4783 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
4784 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
4786 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4787 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
4788 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
4791 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
4792 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
4793 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
4794 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
4795 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
4796 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4798 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
4799 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
4800 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
4801 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4804 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4805 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
4806 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
4807 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
4808 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4810 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4811 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
4812 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
4813 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
4814 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
4815 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4817 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
4818 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
4819 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
4820 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4822 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4823 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4824 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4825 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
4826 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4828 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
4829 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
4830 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
4831 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4833 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
4834 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
4835 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
4836 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
4837 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4839 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
4840 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
4841 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
4842 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
4843 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
4846 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4847 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
4848 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
4851 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
4852 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4853 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4854 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4855 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4856 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4858 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
4859 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4860 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4861 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4862 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4863 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4864 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4865 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4866 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4867 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4870 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
4871 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
4872 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
4873 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
4874 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4875 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4876 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4879 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
4880 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
4881 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
4882 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
4883 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
4884 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
4886 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
4890 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
4891 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
4892 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
4893 Closes ticket 30967.
4895 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
4896 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
4897 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
4898 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
4899 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
4900 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
4901 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
4902 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
4903 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
4904 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
4905 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
4906 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
4907 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
4908 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
4909 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
4910 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
4912 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4913 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
4914 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
4915 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
4916 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
4917 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
4918 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
4919 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
4920 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
4921 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
4923 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
4924 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
4925 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
4927 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
4928 Closes ticket 30806.
4929 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
4930 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
4933 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
4934 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
4935 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
4937 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
4938 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
4939 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4942 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
4943 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
4944 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
4945 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
4946 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
4947 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
4948 bugfixes on earlier versions.
4950 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
4951 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
4952 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4953 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4955 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4956 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4958 o Directory authority changes:
4959 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4962 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
4963 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
4964 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
4965 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
4967 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
4968 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
4969 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
4970 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
4971 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
4972 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
4973 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4975 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
4976 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
4977 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
4978 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4980 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
4981 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4982 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4983 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4984 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4986 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
4987 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
4988 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
4989 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
4990 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4991 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4993 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
4994 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4995 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4998 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4999 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5000 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5002 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
5003 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
5004 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
5007 o Testing (continuous integration):
5008 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5009 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5010 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5014 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
5015 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
5016 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
5017 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
5019 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5020 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5021 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5022 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5023 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5024 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5026 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5027 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5028 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5030 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5031 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5032 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5033 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5034 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5036 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5037 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5038 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5040 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
5041 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
5042 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5044 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
5045 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5046 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5047 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5049 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5050 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
5051 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
5054 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5055 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
5056 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
5059 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5060 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
5061 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
5065 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
5066 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
5067 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
5069 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
5070 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5071 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5072 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5073 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5076 o Minor features (geoip):
5077 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5078 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
5080 o Minor features (logging):
5081 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
5082 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
5083 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
5084 Closes ticket 30686.
5086 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
5087 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5088 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5090 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5091 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5092 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5093 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5094 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5095 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5096 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5098 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5099 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5100 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5101 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5103 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5104 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
5105 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
5106 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
5107 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5110 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
5111 Closes ticket 30630.
5114 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
5115 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
5116 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
5117 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
5118 SENDME implementation.
5120 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
5121 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5122 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5123 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5124 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5125 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5126 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5127 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5128 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5129 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5130 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5132 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
5133 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
5134 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
5135 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
5136 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
5137 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5139 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
5140 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
5141 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
5142 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
5143 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5146 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
5147 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
5148 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
5149 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
5150 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
5151 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
5154 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5155 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
5156 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
5159 o Minor features (maintenance):
5160 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
5161 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
5162 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
5164 o Minor features (testing):
5165 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
5166 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
5167 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
5168 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
5170 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
5171 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
5172 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
5174 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
5175 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5176 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5177 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5179 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5180 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
5181 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
5183 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
5184 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
5187 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5188 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
5189 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
5192 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
5193 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5194 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5197 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
5198 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5199 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5200 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5202 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
5203 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5204 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5205 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5208 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5209 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5210 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5211 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5212 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5213 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5216 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
5217 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
5218 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
5219 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
5220 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
5221 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5223 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
5224 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
5225 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
5226 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
5229 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5230 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5231 Resolves issue 29702.
5234 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
5235 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
5236 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
5237 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
5238 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
5239 performance in several areas.
5241 o Major features (circuit padding):
5242 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
5243 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
5244 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
5245 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
5246 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
5247 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
5248 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
5249 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
5250 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
5252 o Major features (code organization):
5253 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
5254 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
5255 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
5256 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
5259 o Major features (controller protocol):
5260 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
5261 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
5262 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
5263 Closes ticket 30091.
5265 o Major features (flow control):
5266 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
5267 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
5268 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
5269 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
5270 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
5271 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
5272 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
5274 o Major features (performance):
5275 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
5276 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
5277 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
5279 o Major features (performance, RNG):
5280 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
5281 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
5282 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
5283 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
5284 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
5285 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
5286 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
5287 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
5289 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
5290 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5291 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5292 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5293 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5295 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5296 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5297 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5298 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5301 o Minor features (circuit padding):
5302 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
5304 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
5305 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
5306 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
5307 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
5308 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5309 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
5310 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
5312 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
5313 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5314 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5316 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5317 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5318 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5320 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5322 o Minor features (controller):
5323 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
5324 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
5325 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5327 o Minor features (debugging):
5328 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
5329 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
5330 can use format strings to include information for trouble
5331 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
5333 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5334 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
5335 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
5336 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
5337 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
5338 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
5339 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
5340 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
5341 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
5342 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
5344 o Minor features (developer tools):
5345 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
5346 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
5347 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
5348 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
5349 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
5351 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
5352 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
5354 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
5355 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
5357 o Minor features (geoip):
5358 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5359 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
5361 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
5362 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
5363 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
5365 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
5366 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
5367 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
5368 addresses. Implements 26992.
5370 o Minor features (modularity):
5371 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
5372 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
5374 o Minor features (performance):
5375 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
5376 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
5377 Closes ticket 28837.
5379 o Minor features (testing):
5380 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
5381 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
5382 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
5383 Implements ticket 29732.
5384 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
5385 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
5387 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
5388 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
5390 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
5391 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
5392 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
5393 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
5394 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5395 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5397 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
5398 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
5399 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
5400 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5402 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5403 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
5404 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5405 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
5406 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
5407 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
5408 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5409 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
5410 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
5411 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5412 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
5413 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5414 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
5415 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
5416 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5417 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
5418 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
5419 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5421 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
5422 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5423 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5424 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5426 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5427 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
5428 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
5429 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
5430 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
5432 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
5433 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
5434 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5435 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5437 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5438 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
5439 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5440 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
5441 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
5442 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
5444 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
5445 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
5447 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5448 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5449 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5450 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5451 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5452 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
5453 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
5456 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
5457 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5458 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5461 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5462 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5463 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
5464 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5465 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
5466 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
5467 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
5468 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
5470 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
5471 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
5472 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5473 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
5474 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
5475 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
5476 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5478 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
5479 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
5480 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
5481 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
5482 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
5483 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5485 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5486 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
5487 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
5488 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
5489 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5491 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5492 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
5493 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5495 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
5496 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
5497 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
5500 o Minor bugfixes (python):
5501 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
5502 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
5503 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5505 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5506 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
5507 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
5508 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
5509 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5511 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5512 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
5513 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
5514 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
5515 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5517 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5518 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
5519 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
5520 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5521 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
5522 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5523 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
5524 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5525 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
5526 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
5527 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
5528 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
5529 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5531 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
5532 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
5533 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
5534 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
5535 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5537 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5538 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
5539 port. Implements ticket 30007.
5540 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
5541 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
5542 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
5543 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
5544 string to directory connection with or without compression.
5545 Resolves issue 28816.
5546 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
5547 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
5548 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
5549 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
5550 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
5551 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
5552 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
5553 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
5554 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
5555 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
5556 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
5557 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
5558 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
5559 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
5560 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
5561 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
5562 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5563 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
5564 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5565 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
5566 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
5567 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
5568 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
5569 Closes ticket 29894.
5570 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
5571 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
5572 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
5573 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
5576 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
5577 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
5581 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
5582 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
5583 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
5584 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
5587 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
5588 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
5589 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
5590 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
5591 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
5592 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
5593 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
5594 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
5595 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
5596 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
5597 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
5600 o Testing (chutney):
5601 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
5602 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
5603 Closes ticket 27251.
5606 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
5607 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
5608 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
5609 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
5610 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
5611 long-term maintainability.
5613 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
5614 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
5615 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5616 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5618 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5619 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5621 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5622 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5623 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5624 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5626 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5627 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
5628 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
5631 o Minor features (testing):
5632 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
5633 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
5636 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5637 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5638 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5640 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
5641 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
5642 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
5643 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5645 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5646 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
5647 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
5649 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
5650 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
5651 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5654 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
5655 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
5656 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
5657 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
5659 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
5660 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5661 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5662 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5663 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5664 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5666 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
5667 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5668 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5669 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5670 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5672 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
5673 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
5674 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
5677 o Minor features (circuit padding):
5678 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
5679 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
5680 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
5681 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
5684 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5685 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5686 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5689 o Minor features (dormant mode):
5690 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
5691 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
5692 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
5693 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
5694 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
5695 background. Closes ticket 29357.
5697 o Minor features (geoip):
5698 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5699 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
5701 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
5702 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5703 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5704 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5706 o Minor bugfixes (security):
5707 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5708 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5709 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5710 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5711 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5712 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5713 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5714 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5716 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5717 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5718 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5719 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5721 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
5722 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5723 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5724 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5725 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5727 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5728 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5729 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5731 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
5732 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
5733 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
5736 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5737 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5738 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5741 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
5742 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
5743 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5745 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5746 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
5747 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5749 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5750 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
5751 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
5752 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
5753 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
5754 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
5757 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5758 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
5759 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
5760 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
5761 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5763 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5764 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5765 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5766 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5767 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5768 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5771 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
5772 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5773 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5774 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5775 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5776 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5777 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5778 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5780 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5781 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
5782 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
5783 Resolves issue 28816.
5784 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
5785 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
5788 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
5789 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
5792 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
5793 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
5794 bugs from earlier versions.
5796 o Minor features (address selection):
5797 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5798 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5799 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5800 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5801 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5802 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5803 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5805 o Minor features (geoip):
5806 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5807 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
5809 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
5810 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
5811 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
5812 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5814 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5815 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5816 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5817 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5818 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5819 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5820 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5821 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5822 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5823 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5824 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5826 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5827 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5828 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5829 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5831 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
5832 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5833 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5835 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5836 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
5837 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
5840 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
5841 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
5842 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5844 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
5845 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5846 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5847 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5848 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5849 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5850 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5852 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5853 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5854 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5857 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5858 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5859 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5860 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5861 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5862 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5863 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5864 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5865 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
5866 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5868 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
5869 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5870 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5871 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5872 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5873 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5876 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
5877 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
5878 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
5881 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5882 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5883 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5885 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5886 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5887 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5888 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5889 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5890 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5891 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5892 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5894 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5895 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5896 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5897 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5898 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5900 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5901 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5902 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5903 Patches from "Mangix".
5905 o Minor features (geoip):
5906 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5907 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5909 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5910 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5913 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5914 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5915 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5916 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5917 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5918 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5920 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5921 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5922 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5923 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5926 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5927 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5928 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5929 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5931 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5932 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5933 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5936 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5937 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5938 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5939 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5941 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5942 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5943 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5944 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5946 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5947 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5948 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5949 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5950 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5951 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5953 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5954 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5955 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5956 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5957 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5959 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5960 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5961 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5962 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5963 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5965 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5966 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5967 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5969 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5970 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5971 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5973 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5974 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5975 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5976 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5978 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5979 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5980 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5982 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5983 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5984 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5985 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5986 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5989 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5990 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5991 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5992 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5993 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5996 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
5997 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
5998 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
5999 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
6000 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6002 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6003 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6004 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6005 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6006 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6007 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6008 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6009 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6011 o Minor features (geoip):
6012 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6013 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6015 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6016 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6017 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6018 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6020 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6021 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6022 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6023 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6024 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6027 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
6028 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6029 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6030 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6032 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
6033 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
6034 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
6035 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6037 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6038 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6039 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6040 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6041 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6042 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6043 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6044 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6046 o Minor features (geoip):
6047 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6048 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6050 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6051 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6052 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6053 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6055 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6056 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6057 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6058 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6059 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6062 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
6063 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
6064 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
6065 backward compatibility.
6067 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6068 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6069 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6071 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6072 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6073 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6074 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6075 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6076 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6077 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6078 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6080 o Major bugfixes (networking):
6081 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6082 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6083 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6084 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6086 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
6087 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
6088 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
6089 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
6090 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
6091 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
6092 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6094 o Minor features (compilation):
6095 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6096 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6097 Patches from "Mangix".
6099 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6100 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
6101 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
6102 release. Closes ticket 27761.
6103 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
6104 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
6105 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
6108 o Minor features (directory authority):
6109 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
6110 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
6111 Closes ticket 26698.
6113 o Minor features (geoip):
6114 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6115 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6117 o Minor features (testing):
6118 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6121 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
6122 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6123 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6124 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6126 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6127 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
6128 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6129 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6130 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6132 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6133 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6134 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6135 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6137 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
6138 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
6139 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
6141 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6142 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6143 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6144 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6145 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6146 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6147 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6149 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
6150 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6151 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6152 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6153 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6155 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6156 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6157 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6159 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6160 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6161 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6163 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6164 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6165 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6166 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6168 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
6169 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
6170 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
6171 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
6172 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
6175 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
6176 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
6177 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6178 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
6179 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
6180 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
6181 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6182 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6183 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6184 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6185 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
6189 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
6190 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
6191 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
6194 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
6197 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
6198 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
6199 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
6200 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
6201 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
6202 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
6205 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
6206 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
6207 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
6208 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
6209 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
6210 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
6212 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
6213 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
6215 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
6216 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
6219 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
6220 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
6221 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
6222 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
6223 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
6224 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
6225 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
6226 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
6227 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
6230 o Major features (circuit padding):
6231 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
6232 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
6233 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
6234 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
6235 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
6236 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
6237 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
6238 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
6241 o Major features (refactoring):
6242 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
6243 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
6244 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
6245 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
6248 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
6249 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
6250 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
6251 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
6252 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
6255 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6256 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
6259 o Minor features (controller):
6260 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
6261 Implements ticket 28843.
6263 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6264 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
6265 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
6266 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
6268 o Minor features (directory authority):
6269 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
6270 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
6271 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
6272 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
6275 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
6276 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
6277 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
6278 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
6279 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
6280 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
6281 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
6283 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6284 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
6285 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
6287 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
6288 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
6289 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
6290 Closes ticket 28518.
6292 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
6293 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
6294 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
6295 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
6297 o Minor features (IPv6):
6298 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
6299 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
6300 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
6301 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
6302 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
6303 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6304 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
6305 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
6306 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
6307 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6309 o Minor features (log messages):
6310 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
6311 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
6314 o Minor features (memory usage):
6315 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
6316 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
6317 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
6318 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
6319 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
6321 o Minor features (parsing):
6322 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
6323 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
6324 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
6326 o Minor features (performance):
6327 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
6328 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
6329 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
6330 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
6332 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
6333 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
6334 Closes ticket 28852.
6335 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
6336 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
6337 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
6338 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
6339 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
6340 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
6342 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
6343 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
6344 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
6345 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
6346 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
6348 o Minor features (process management):
6349 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
6350 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
6351 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
6352 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
6353 module. Closes ticket 28847.
6355 o Minor features (relay):
6356 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
6357 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
6358 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
6360 o Minor features (required protocols):
6361 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
6362 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
6363 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
6364 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
6365 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
6366 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
6367 297; closes ticket 27735.
6369 o Minor features (testing):
6370 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
6371 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
6373 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
6374 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
6375 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6376 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6377 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6380 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6381 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6382 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6383 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6385 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
6386 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6387 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6389 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
6390 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
6391 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
6392 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6394 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
6395 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
6396 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
6397 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
6398 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
6400 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6401 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
6402 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
6403 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
6404 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
6405 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
6406 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6408 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
6409 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6410 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6411 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6414 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6415 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6416 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6417 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6418 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6419 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6421 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
6422 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
6423 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
6424 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6426 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
6427 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6428 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6429 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6430 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6431 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6433 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
6434 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
6435 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
6436 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6438 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6439 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
6440 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
6441 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
6442 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6444 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6445 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
6446 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
6447 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
6448 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6450 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
6451 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
6452 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
6453 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
6454 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6456 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6457 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
6458 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
6459 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
6461 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
6462 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
6463 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
6464 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
6465 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
6466 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
6467 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
6468 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
6472 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
6473 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
6474 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
6475 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
6477 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
6480 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
6481 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
6482 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
6483 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
6484 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
6485 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
6486 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
6489 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
6491 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
6492 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
6494 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
6495 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
6496 code from client and service into one function. Closes
6499 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6500 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
6502 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
6503 Resolves ticket 28006.
6504 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
6505 Resolves ticket 28012.
6506 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
6507 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
6508 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
6509 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
6513 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
6514 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6515 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
6516 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
6517 to this version, or to a later series.
6519 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
6520 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
6521 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
6522 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
6523 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
6524 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6526 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6527 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6528 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6529 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6530 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6533 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6534 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6535 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6536 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6538 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6539 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6540 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6541 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6542 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6543 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6544 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6545 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6547 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6548 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6549 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6550 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6552 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6553 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6554 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6555 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6556 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6558 o Minor features (geoip):
6559 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6560 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6562 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6563 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6564 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6565 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6566 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6567 Closes ticket 28973.
6569 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6570 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6571 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6572 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6574 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6575 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6576 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6579 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6580 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6581 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6583 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6584 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6585 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6586 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6588 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6589 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6590 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
6591 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6593 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6594 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6595 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6596 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6597 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6598 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6601 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6602 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6603 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6606 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6607 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6608 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6609 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6610 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6612 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6613 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6614 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6615 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6616 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6618 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6619 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6620 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6621 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6622 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6623 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6625 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6626 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
6627 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
6630 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6631 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6632 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6634 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6635 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6636 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6638 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6639 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6640 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6643 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6644 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6645 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6646 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6647 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6648 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6649 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6650 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6652 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6653 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6654 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6655 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6657 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6658 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6659 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6660 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6661 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6662 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6663 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6664 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6665 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6666 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6668 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6669 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6670 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6671 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6672 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6673 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6675 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6676 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6677 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6678 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6679 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6681 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6682 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6683 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6686 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
6687 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6688 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
6689 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
6692 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
6693 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
6694 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
6697 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6698 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6699 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6700 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6701 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6704 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6705 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6706 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6707 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6708 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6709 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6710 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6712 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6713 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6714 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6717 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6718 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
6719 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
6720 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
6721 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
6724 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6725 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6726 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6727 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6728 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6730 o Minor features (geoip):
6731 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6732 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
6734 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6735 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6736 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6737 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6738 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6739 Closes ticket 28973.
6741 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6742 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6743 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6744 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6746 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6747 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
6748 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
6749 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
6750 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
6753 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6754 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
6755 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
6756 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
6758 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
6759 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
6760 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6762 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6763 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6764 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6765 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6767 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6768 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6769 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6770 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6771 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6772 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6775 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6776 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6777 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6779 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6780 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6781 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6782 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6783 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6785 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6786 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6787 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6788 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6789 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6790 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6792 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6793 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6794 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6795 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6797 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6798 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6799 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6802 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
6803 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6804 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
6805 affecting directory caches.
6807 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
6808 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
6809 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
6810 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
6811 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
6812 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
6813 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
6814 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
6816 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
6817 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
6818 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
6819 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
6820 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
6821 so it will recognize them.
6823 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
6824 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
6825 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
6826 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
6827 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
6828 with the latest stable release.)
6830 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
6831 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6833 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
6834 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6835 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6836 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6837 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6838 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6839 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6841 o Minor features (compilation):
6842 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
6843 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
6845 o Minor features (geoip):
6846 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6847 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6849 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
6850 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6851 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6852 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6853 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6854 Closes ticket 28973.
6856 o Minor features (performance):
6857 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
6858 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
6859 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
6860 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
6861 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
6862 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
6863 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
6864 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
6865 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
6866 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
6868 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6869 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
6870 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6872 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6873 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
6874 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
6875 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
6876 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
6878 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6879 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
6880 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
6881 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6882 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
6883 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
6884 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6886 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
6887 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
6888 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
6890 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6891 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
6892 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
6896 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
6897 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
6898 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
6899 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
6901 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
6902 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6903 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6906 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6907 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6908 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6909 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6910 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6912 o Minor features (geoip):
6913 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6914 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
6916 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6917 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
6918 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6920 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
6921 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6922 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6923 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6925 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6926 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6927 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6928 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6929 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6930 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6932 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
6933 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
6934 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
6937 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6938 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
6939 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
6940 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6941 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
6942 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6943 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6945 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
6946 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
6947 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
6948 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
6949 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
6950 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
6951 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
6952 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
6954 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
6955 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
6956 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
6957 reported by Keifer Bly.
6960 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
6961 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
6963 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
6964 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
6965 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
6966 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
6967 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
6968 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
6969 Closes ticket 19566.
6971 o Documentation (onion services):
6972 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
6973 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
6974 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
6975 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
6976 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
6977 process. Closes ticket 28275.
6980 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
6981 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
6982 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
6985 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
6986 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6987 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6988 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6989 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6992 o Minor features (geoip):
6993 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6994 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
6996 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6997 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6998 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6999 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7001 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
7002 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7003 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7004 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7005 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7008 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
7009 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7010 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7011 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7013 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7014 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7015 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7017 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7018 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
7019 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7021 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7022 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
7023 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
7026 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7027 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
7028 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
7031 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7032 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7033 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7035 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7036 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
7037 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
7038 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
7039 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
7040 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
7041 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
7042 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
7043 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
7044 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7047 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
7048 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
7049 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
7050 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
7051 acceptable long-term-support release.
7053 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
7054 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
7055 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
7056 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
7057 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
7058 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7060 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
7061 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
7062 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
7063 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
7064 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7066 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7067 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
7069 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
7070 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
7072 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
7073 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
7074 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
7076 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
7077 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7078 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7081 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7082 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
7083 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7085 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
7086 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
7087 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
7090 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7091 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
7092 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
7095 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
7096 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7097 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
7098 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7100 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7101 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
7102 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
7103 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
7106 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
7107 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
7108 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
7109 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7111 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7112 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
7113 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
7114 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
7115 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
7116 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
7117 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7119 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7120 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
7121 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
7124 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
7125 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
7128 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
7129 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
7130 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
7131 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
7132 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7134 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
7135 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7136 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7137 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7138 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7139 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7141 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
7142 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7143 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7144 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7145 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7147 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7148 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
7149 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7151 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
7152 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7153 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7154 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7155 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7157 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
7158 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
7159 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
7162 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
7163 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7164 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
7165 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
7166 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
7168 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7169 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7170 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7172 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7173 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7174 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7175 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7176 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7178 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7179 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7180 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7181 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7182 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7185 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7186 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7187 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7188 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7190 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7191 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7192 Implements ticket 27252.
7193 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7194 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7195 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7196 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7197 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7198 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7199 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7201 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7202 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7203 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7204 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7206 o Minor features (geoip):
7207 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7208 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
7210 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7211 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7212 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7213 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7214 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7216 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7217 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7218 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7219 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7220 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7223 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7224 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7225 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7228 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7229 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7230 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7231 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7232 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7234 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7235 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7236 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7238 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7239 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7240 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7242 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7243 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7244 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7245 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7247 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7248 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7249 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7251 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7252 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7253 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7256 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7257 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7258 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7260 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7261 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7262 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7265 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7266 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7267 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7268 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7269 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7271 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7272 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7273 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7274 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7275 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7276 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7278 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7279 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7280 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7283 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7284 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7285 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7286 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7287 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7288 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7289 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7290 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7292 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7293 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7294 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7295 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7297 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7298 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7299 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7300 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7301 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7303 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7304 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7305 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7306 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7307 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7308 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7310 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7311 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7312 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7313 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7314 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7315 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7317 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7318 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
7319 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
7320 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
7323 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7324 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7325 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7326 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7327 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7330 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
7331 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
7332 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
7333 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
7334 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
7335 getting closer and closer to stability.
7337 o Major features (onion services):
7338 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
7339 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
7340 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
7341 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
7342 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
7344 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
7345 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7346 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7348 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
7349 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
7350 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
7351 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7353 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
7354 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7355 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7356 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7357 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7359 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7360 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7361 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7362 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7363 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7366 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7367 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7368 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7369 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7370 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
7371 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
7374 o Minor features (geoip):
7375 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7376 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
7378 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
7379 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7380 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7383 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7384 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
7385 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
7386 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
7387 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
7388 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
7391 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
7392 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
7395 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
7396 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7397 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7398 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7399 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7401 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
7402 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7403 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7404 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7405 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7406 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7409 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7410 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
7411 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7413 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7414 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
7415 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
7417 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
7418 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
7419 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7421 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7422 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
7423 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
7425 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7426 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7427 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7428 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7429 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7430 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7431 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7432 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7433 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7435 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
7436 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7437 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7440 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7441 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
7442 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
7443 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
7445 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
7446 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7448 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7449 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
7450 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
7451 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
7452 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
7453 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
7454 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
7455 Closes ticket 27814.
7456 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
7457 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
7458 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
7459 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
7460 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
7461 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
7464 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
7465 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
7466 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
7467 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
7470 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
7471 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
7472 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
7473 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
7475 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
7476 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
7477 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
7478 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
7479 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
7480 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
7482 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
7483 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
7484 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
7485 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
7486 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
7489 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
7490 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7491 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7492 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7493 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7495 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7496 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7497 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7498 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7499 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7502 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7503 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7504 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7505 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7506 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7508 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7509 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
7510 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
7511 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
7513 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
7514 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
7515 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
7518 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7519 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7520 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7521 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7523 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7524 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
7525 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
7526 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7528 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7529 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
7530 Closes ticket 27799.
7533 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
7534 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
7535 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
7536 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
7537 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
7539 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
7540 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
7541 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
7542 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
7543 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
7544 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
7546 o Major features (relay, UI change):
7547 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
7548 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
7549 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
7550 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
7551 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7552 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
7553 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
7555 o Major features (bootstrap):
7556 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
7557 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
7558 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
7559 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
7561 o Major features (new code layout):
7562 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
7563 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
7564 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
7565 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
7566 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
7567 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
7568 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
7570 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
7571 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
7572 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
7574 o Major features (onion services v3):
7575 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
7576 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
7577 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
7578 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
7579 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
7580 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
7581 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
7582 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
7583 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
7584 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
7585 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
7586 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
7587 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
7589 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
7590 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
7591 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
7592 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
7593 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
7594 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
7595 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
7597 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
7598 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
7599 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
7600 (if present), and restart Tor.
7602 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7603 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
7604 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
7605 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
7608 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7609 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7610 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7611 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7613 o Minor features (admin tools):
7614 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
7615 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
7618 o Minor features (build):
7619 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
7620 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
7621 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
7622 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
7624 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
7625 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
7626 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
7627 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
7628 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
7630 o Minor features (code layout):
7631 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
7632 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
7633 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
7634 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
7637 o Minor features (compilation):
7638 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
7639 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
7640 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
7641 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
7644 o Minor features (config):
7645 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
7648 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7649 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7650 Implements ticket 27252.
7651 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7652 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7653 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7654 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7655 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7656 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7657 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7658 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7659 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7661 o Minor features (controller):
7662 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
7663 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
7664 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
7665 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
7666 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7667 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7668 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7669 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7671 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
7672 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
7673 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
7674 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
7676 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
7677 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
7678 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
7679 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7681 o Minor features (development):
7682 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
7683 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
7685 o Minor features (directory authority):
7686 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
7687 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
7688 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
7689 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
7691 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
7692 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
7695 o Minor features (embedding API):
7696 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
7697 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
7698 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
7699 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
7700 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
7701 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
7704 o Minor features (geoip):
7705 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7706 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
7708 o Minor features (memory management):
7709 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
7710 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
7713 o Minor features (memory usage):
7714 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
7715 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
7716 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
7718 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
7719 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
7720 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
7722 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
7723 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
7724 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
7725 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
7727 o Minor features (testing):
7728 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
7729 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
7731 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
7732 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
7733 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
7735 o Minor features (UI):
7736 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
7737 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
7738 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
7739 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
7740 Closes ticket 26703.
7742 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
7743 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
7744 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
7745 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7747 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7748 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
7749 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
7750 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7751 - Use time_t for all values in
7752 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
7753 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
7754 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7756 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
7757 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
7758 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
7759 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
7760 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
7763 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
7764 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
7765 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
7766 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
7767 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
7768 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7770 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
7771 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
7772 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
7773 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7775 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
7776 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
7777 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
7778 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
7779 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
7781 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7782 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7783 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7785 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7786 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
7787 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
7788 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
7789 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
7792 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
7793 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7794 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7796 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7797 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7798 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7801 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7802 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
7803 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
7804 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
7805 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7807 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7808 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
7809 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
7810 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
7811 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
7812 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
7813 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
7815 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
7816 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
7817 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
7818 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
7819 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7821 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
7822 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7823 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7825 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
7826 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
7827 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
7828 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
7831 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7832 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7833 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7836 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
7837 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
7838 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
7839 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
7840 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
7842 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
7843 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
7844 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
7845 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
7847 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7848 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7849 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7850 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7852 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
7853 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
7854 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
7855 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
7856 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
7857 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7858 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7859 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
7860 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
7861 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7863 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
7864 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7865 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7866 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7867 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7868 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7869 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7870 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7872 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7873 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
7874 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7875 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7876 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7877 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7878 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7879 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7880 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
7881 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
7882 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7883 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
7884 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7886 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7887 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
7888 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
7889 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
7890 directory within the top-level src directory.
7891 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
7892 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
7893 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
7894 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
7895 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
7896 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
7897 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
7898 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
7899 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
7900 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
7901 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
7902 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
7903 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
7904 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
7905 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
7906 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
7907 Closes ticket 21349.
7908 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
7909 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
7910 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
7911 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
7912 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
7913 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
7914 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
7916 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
7917 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
7918 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
7921 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
7922 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
7923 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
7924 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
7925 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
7928 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
7929 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
7930 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
7931 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
7932 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
7933 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
7934 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
7935 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
7936 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
7937 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
7938 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
7939 Closes ticket 26367.
7942 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
7943 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
7945 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7946 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7947 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7948 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7950 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7951 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7953 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7954 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7955 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7956 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7958 o Minor features (geoip):
7959 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7960 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7962 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7963 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7964 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7965 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7967 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7968 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7969 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7970 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7971 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7972 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7973 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7974 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7977 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7978 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7979 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7980 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7982 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7983 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7984 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7985 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7987 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7988 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7989 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7990 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7992 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7993 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7994 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7995 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7996 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7998 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7999 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8000 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8003 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8004 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8005 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8006 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8007 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8009 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8010 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8011 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8014 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8015 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8016 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8017 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8019 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8020 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8021 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8023 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8024 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8025 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8028 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8029 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8030 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8031 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8032 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8034 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8035 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8036 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8039 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
8040 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8042 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8043 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8044 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8045 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8047 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8048 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8050 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8051 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8052 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8053 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8055 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8056 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8059 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8060 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8061 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8062 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8064 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8065 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8066 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8067 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8069 o Minor features (geoip):
8070 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8071 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8073 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8074 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8075 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8076 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8077 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8078 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8079 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8081 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8082 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8083 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8084 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8085 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8086 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8087 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8088 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8091 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8092 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8093 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8094 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8096 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8097 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8098 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8099 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8101 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8102 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8103 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8104 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8105 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8107 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8108 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8109 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8110 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8111 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8113 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8114 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8115 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8118 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8119 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8120 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8121 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8122 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8124 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8125 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8126 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8129 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8130 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8131 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8134 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8135 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8136 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8139 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8140 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8142 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8143 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8144 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8145 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8147 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8148 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8149 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8150 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8152 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8153 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8154 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8156 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8157 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8158 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8159 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8160 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8161 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8162 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8165 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8166 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
8167 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
8168 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
8169 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8171 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8172 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8173 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8174 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8175 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8177 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8178 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8179 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8182 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
8183 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8185 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8186 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8187 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8188 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8190 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8191 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8192 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8193 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8195 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8196 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8197 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8199 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8200 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8201 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8202 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8204 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8205 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8208 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8209 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8210 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8211 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8213 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8214 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8215 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8216 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8218 o Minor features (geoip):
8219 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8220 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8222 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8223 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8224 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8225 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8226 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8227 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8228 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8230 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8231 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8232 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8233 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8234 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8235 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8236 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8237 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8240 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8241 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8242 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8243 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8245 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8246 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8247 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8248 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8250 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8251 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8252 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8253 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8254 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8256 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8257 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8258 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8259 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8260 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8262 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8263 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8264 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8267 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8268 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8269 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8270 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8272 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8273 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8274 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8275 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8276 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8278 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8279 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8280 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8283 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8284 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8285 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8288 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8289 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8290 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8293 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8294 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8295 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8296 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8298 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8299 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8300 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8303 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8304 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8306 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8307 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8308 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8309 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8310 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8311 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8312 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8314 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8315 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8316 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8317 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8318 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8320 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8321 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8322 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8323 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8325 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8326 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8327 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8329 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8330 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8331 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8332 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8333 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8334 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8335 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8338 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8339 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8340 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8341 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8342 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8344 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8345 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8346 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8347 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8348 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8350 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8351 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8352 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8355 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
8356 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8357 compilation and portability fixes.
8359 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
8360 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
8361 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
8362 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
8363 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
8364 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
8365 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
8366 our anti-denial-of-service code.
8368 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
8369 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8371 o Minor features (compatibility):
8372 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8373 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8374 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8376 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8377 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
8378 Implements ticket 27449.
8379 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
8380 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
8383 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8384 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8385 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8386 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8387 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8388 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8389 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8390 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8393 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8394 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
8395 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
8396 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
8397 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
8398 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8399 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8400 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8401 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8402 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8404 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8405 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8406 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8409 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
8410 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8411 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8412 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8413 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8414 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8415 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8418 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
8419 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
8420 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
8421 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
8422 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
8424 o Minor features (bug workaround):
8425 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8426 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8427 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8429 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8430 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8431 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8433 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8434 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8435 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
8436 Implements ticket 27275.
8437 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8438 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8440 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
8441 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8444 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8445 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8446 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8447 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8449 o Minor features (geoip):
8450 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8451 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8453 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
8454 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8455 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8456 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8458 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8459 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
8460 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
8461 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
8462 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8463 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8464 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8465 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8467 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
8468 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8469 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8470 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8472 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8473 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8474 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8475 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8476 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8478 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8479 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8480 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8483 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8484 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8485 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8488 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8489 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8491 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8492 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8493 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8494 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8495 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8496 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8497 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8499 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8500 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8501 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8502 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8503 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8505 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
8506 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
8507 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
8508 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
8509 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8511 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8512 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8513 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8514 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8515 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8517 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
8518 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8519 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8522 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
8523 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
8524 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
8525 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
8526 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
8528 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
8529 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
8530 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
8531 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
8532 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
8533 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8535 o Minor features (compilation):
8536 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8537 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8539 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8540 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8541 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8542 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8543 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8544 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8546 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8547 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8548 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8549 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8551 o Minor features (controller):
8552 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8553 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8554 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8556 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8557 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8558 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8561 o Minor features (geoip):
8562 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8563 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8565 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
8566 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
8568 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8569 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
8570 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8571 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8572 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8573 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8574 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8576 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8577 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
8578 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8579 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
8580 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
8581 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8583 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
8584 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
8585 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
8588 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
8589 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8590 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8592 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8593 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8594 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8597 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8598 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
8599 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8600 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8601 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8602 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8604 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
8605 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
8606 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
8607 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8609 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8610 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8611 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8613 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
8614 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
8615 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
8616 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
8617 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
8618 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
8620 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
8621 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8622 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8623 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8624 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8627 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
8628 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8629 bridge relays should upgrade.
8631 o Directory authority changes:
8632 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8633 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8634 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8637 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
8638 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8639 bridge relays should upgrade.
8641 o Directory authority changes:
8642 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8643 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8644 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8647 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
8648 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8649 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8652 o Directory authority changes:
8653 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8654 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8655 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8657 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8658 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8659 Closes ticket 26343.
8661 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8662 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8663 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8664 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8665 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8667 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8668 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
8669 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
8671 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8672 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8673 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8674 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8676 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8677 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
8678 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
8680 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8681 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8682 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8683 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8684 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8685 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8687 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8688 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8689 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8690 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8692 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8693 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8694 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8697 o Minor features (geoip):
8698 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8699 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8701 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8702 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8703 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8704 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8705 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8707 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8708 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8709 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8711 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8712 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8713 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8714 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8715 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8716 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8717 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8718 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8721 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8722 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8723 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8724 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8725 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8726 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8728 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8729 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
8730 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
8731 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
8732 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8734 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8735 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8736 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8737 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8738 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8740 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8741 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8742 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8745 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8746 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8747 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8749 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8750 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8751 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8752 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8754 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8755 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8756 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8757 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8758 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8759 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8760 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8762 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8763 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8764 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8765 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8768 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8769 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8770 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8772 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8773 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8774 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8776 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8777 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8778 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8779 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8782 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8783 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8784 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8785 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8787 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8788 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8789 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8791 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8792 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8793 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8796 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
8797 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8798 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8801 o Directory authority changes:
8802 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8803 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8804 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8806 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8807 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8808 Closes ticket 26343.
8810 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8811 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8812 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8813 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8814 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8816 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8817 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8818 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8819 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8821 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8822 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8823 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8824 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8825 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8826 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8828 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8829 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8830 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8833 o Minor features (geoip):
8834 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8835 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8837 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8838 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8839 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8840 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8841 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8843 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8844 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8845 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8847 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8848 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8849 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8850 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8853 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8854 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8855 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8856 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8857 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8858 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8860 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8861 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8862 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8863 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8864 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8866 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8867 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8868 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8871 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8872 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8873 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8875 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8876 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8877 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8878 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8880 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8881 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8882 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8884 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8885 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8886 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8889 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
8890 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
8891 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
8892 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
8893 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
8895 o Minor features (compilation):
8896 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8897 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8900 o Minor features (geoip):
8901 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8902 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8904 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
8905 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
8907 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8908 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8909 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8910 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8911 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8913 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
8914 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
8915 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8916 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
8917 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
8918 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8920 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
8921 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
8922 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
8925 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
8926 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8927 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8929 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
8930 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8931 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8932 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8933 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8934 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8935 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8936 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8940 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
8941 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
8942 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
8944 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8945 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
8946 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
8947 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8949 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8950 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
8951 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
8954 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8955 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8956 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8959 o Minor features (geoip):
8960 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8961 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8963 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8964 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8965 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8966 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8968 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8969 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
8970 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
8971 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
8972 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
8975 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8976 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8977 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8978 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8979 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8981 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8982 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
8983 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
8984 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8986 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8987 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8988 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8990 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8991 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8992 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8993 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8996 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8997 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
8998 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
8999 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9001 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9002 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9003 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9004 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9005 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9006 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9007 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9008 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9012 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
9013 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
9014 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
9016 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9017 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9018 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9019 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9021 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
9022 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9023 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9026 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
9027 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9028 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9029 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9031 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
9032 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9033 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9034 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9036 o Minor features (unit tests):
9037 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9038 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9039 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9042 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9043 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9044 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9045 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9046 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
9047 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
9048 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9049 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9050 Closes ticket 26245.
9052 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9053 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
9054 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
9055 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
9056 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
9057 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9059 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9060 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9061 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9062 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9065 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9066 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
9067 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9068 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
9069 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
9070 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
9071 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
9072 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
9073 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9074 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
9075 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
9076 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
9077 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
9078 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9081 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
9082 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9083 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
9085 o Directory authority changes:
9086 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9087 Closes ticket 26343.
9089 o Minor features (geoip):
9090 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9091 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9093 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9094 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9095 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9096 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9097 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9098 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9100 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9101 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9102 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9104 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9105 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9106 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9107 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9108 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9110 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9111 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9112 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9114 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9115 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
9116 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
9117 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
9118 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
9119 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9122 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
9123 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
9124 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
9126 o Directory authority changes:
9127 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9128 Closes ticket 26343.
9130 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
9131 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
9132 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
9133 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
9134 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
9136 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9137 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9138 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9139 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9141 o Minor features (geoip):
9142 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9143 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9145 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
9146 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9147 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9148 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9149 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9150 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9152 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9153 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9154 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9155 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
9156 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9157 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
9158 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
9159 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9161 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9162 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
9163 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
9164 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
9167 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9168 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9169 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9170 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9171 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9173 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
9174 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9175 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9177 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9178 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
9179 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9181 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
9182 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
9183 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
9184 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
9188 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
9189 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
9190 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9192 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
9193 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
9194 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
9195 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
9196 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
9197 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
9199 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
9200 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9202 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9203 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9204 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9205 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9206 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9208 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
9209 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
9210 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
9211 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
9212 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
9214 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9215 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
9216 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
9217 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9219 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9220 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
9221 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
9222 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9224 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9225 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9226 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9228 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9229 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
9230 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
9233 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9234 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
9235 Closes ticket 26006.
9237 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9238 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9239 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9240 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9241 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9242 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9244 o Minor features (geoip):
9245 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
9246 database. Closes ticket 26104.
9248 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9249 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9250 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9253 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9254 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9255 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9256 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9257 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9259 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9260 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
9261 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
9262 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
9263 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
9266 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9267 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9268 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9270 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9271 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9272 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9273 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9274 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9275 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9276 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9278 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9279 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9280 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9282 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9283 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
9284 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
9287 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
9288 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
9289 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
9290 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
9291 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
9292 other small features and bugfixes.
9294 o New system requirements:
9295 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9296 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9297 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9298 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9300 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
9301 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9302 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9303 To disable the module, the configure option
9304 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9305 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9307 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9308 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9309 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9310 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9311 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9312 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9313 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9314 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9315 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9316 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9317 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
9319 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9320 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9321 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9322 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9323 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9324 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9325 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9326 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9327 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9328 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9329 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9330 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9331 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9332 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9333 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9334 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9335 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9336 Tor's uptime (26009).
9338 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
9339 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9340 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9341 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9342 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9344 o Major bugfixes (crash):
9345 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
9346 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
9347 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9349 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9350 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
9351 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
9352 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9354 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
9355 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9356 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9358 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
9359 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
9360 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
9361 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
9362 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
9363 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
9364 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
9365 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
9366 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
9367 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
9368 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
9369 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
9370 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
9371 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9373 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
9374 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
9375 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
9378 o Minor features (accounting):
9379 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9380 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9381 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9382 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9384 o Minor features (code quality):
9385 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9386 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9387 Closes ticket 25024.
9389 o Minor features (compatibility):
9390 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9391 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9392 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9393 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
9394 Closes ticket 26006.
9396 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9397 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9398 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9399 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9400 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9401 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9403 o Minor features (configuration):
9404 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9405 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9406 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9407 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9408 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9410 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9411 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9412 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9413 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9414 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9415 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9417 o Minor features (control port):
9418 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9419 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9420 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9421 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9422 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9423 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9424 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9425 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9426 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9427 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9429 o Minor features (directory authority):
9430 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9431 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9432 Closes ticket 23909.
9434 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9435 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9436 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9437 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9439 o Minor features (entry guards):
9440 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9441 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9443 o Minor features (geoip):
9444 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
9445 database. Closes ticket 26104.
9447 o Minor features (performance):
9448 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9449 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9450 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9451 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9453 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9454 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9456 o Minor features (testing):
9457 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9458 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9460 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9461 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9462 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9463 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9464 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9465 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9467 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9468 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9469 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9470 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9471 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9473 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9474 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9475 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9476 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9477 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9478 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9480 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9481 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9482 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9483 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9485 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
9486 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9487 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9488 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9489 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9492 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9493 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9494 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9497 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9498 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9499 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9500 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9501 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9503 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
9504 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
9505 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
9506 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
9507 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9509 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9510 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
9511 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
9512 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
9513 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9515 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
9516 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
9517 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
9518 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
9519 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9521 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9522 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
9523 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9524 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
9525 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
9526 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
9529 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9530 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
9531 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
9532 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
9533 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
9536 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
9537 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
9538 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
9539 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
9540 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
9541 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
9542 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9544 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9545 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9546 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9548 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
9549 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9550 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9551 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9552 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9553 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9554 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9556 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9557 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
9558 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
9559 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
9560 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
9561 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9563 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9564 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
9565 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
9568 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
9569 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
9570 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
9571 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9573 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9574 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
9575 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
9576 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
9577 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
9578 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
9579 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
9581 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
9582 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9583 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9585 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
9586 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
9587 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
9588 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9590 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9591 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
9592 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
9593 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
9594 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
9595 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9596 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
9597 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
9599 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
9600 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
9601 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9602 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
9603 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
9604 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
9605 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
9607 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
9608 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
9609 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
9610 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
9611 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
9613 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
9614 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
9615 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
9618 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
9619 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
9620 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
9621 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
9622 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
9623 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9625 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9626 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
9627 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
9628 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9629 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
9630 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
9631 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
9632 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
9634 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
9635 confusing we renamed some functions and
9636 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
9637 router_should_check_reachability() and
9638 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
9639 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
9640 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
9641 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
9642 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
9644 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
9645 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
9647 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
9648 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
9649 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9650 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
9651 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
9652 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
9653 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
9654 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
9655 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
9656 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
9657 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
9658 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
9659 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
9660 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
9661 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
9662 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9663 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
9664 Closes ticket 25766.
9665 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
9666 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
9667 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
9668 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
9669 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
9670 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9671 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
9672 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
9673 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
9674 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
9675 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9676 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
9677 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
9678 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
9680 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
9681 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
9682 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
9683 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
9684 before. Closes ticket 26016.
9685 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
9686 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
9687 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
9688 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
9690 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
9691 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
9692 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
9693 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9695 o Deprecated features:
9696 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
9697 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
9698 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
9699 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
9700 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
9701 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
9704 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
9705 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
9708 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
9709 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
9710 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
9711 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
9712 24378 and proposal 290.
9713 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
9714 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
9715 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
9716 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
9717 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
9718 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
9719 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
9720 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
9721 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
9722 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
9723 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
9724 their local router. Closes 25409.
9725 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
9726 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
9727 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
9728 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
9729 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
9730 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
9731 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
9732 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
9733 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
9734 Closes ticket 25268.
9737 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
9738 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
9739 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
9741 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
9742 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
9743 be nearly identical to this one.
9745 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
9746 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
9747 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
9748 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
9749 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
9750 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9752 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
9753 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
9754 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
9755 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
9756 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
9757 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
9758 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
9760 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
9761 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9762 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9764 o Minor features (config options):
9765 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
9766 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
9767 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
9770 o Minor features (geoip):
9771 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9772 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
9774 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9775 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
9776 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
9777 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
9778 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
9779 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9781 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9782 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
9783 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
9784 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9786 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
9787 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
9788 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
9789 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9790 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
9791 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
9792 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9794 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9795 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9796 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9797 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9798 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9799 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
9800 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9802 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
9803 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
9804 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
9805 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
9806 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
9808 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9809 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
9810 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
9812 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
9813 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
9814 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
9816 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9817 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9818 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9820 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
9821 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
9822 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
9826 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
9827 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
9828 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
9829 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
9831 o New system requirements:
9832 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
9833 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
9835 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
9836 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
9837 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
9838 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
9839 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9841 o Minor features (geoip):
9842 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9843 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
9845 o Minor features (log messages):
9846 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
9847 information about memory usage from the different compression
9848 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
9850 o Minor features (sandbox):
9851 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9852 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9853 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9855 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9856 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9857 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9858 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9860 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
9861 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
9862 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
9864 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9865 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9866 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9867 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9869 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
9870 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
9871 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
9872 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9874 o Major bugfixes (networking):
9875 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
9876 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
9877 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
9879 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9880 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
9881 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
9883 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9884 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
9885 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
9886 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
9887 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
9888 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9890 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9891 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9892 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9893 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9895 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
9896 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
9897 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
9898 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
9900 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
9901 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
9902 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
9903 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
9906 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
9907 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
9908 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
9909 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
9910 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9912 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9913 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
9914 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
9918 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
9920 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
9921 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
9924 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
9925 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
9928 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9929 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9931 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9932 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9934 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9937 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
9938 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
9939 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
9941 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
9942 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
9943 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
9944 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
9947 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9948 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9949 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9950 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9953 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9954 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9955 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9956 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9957 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9958 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9959 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9960 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9961 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9962 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9963 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9964 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9965 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9967 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9968 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9969 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9971 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9972 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9973 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9974 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9975 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9976 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9977 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9979 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9980 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
9981 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9983 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9984 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
9985 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
9986 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
9987 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
9988 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
9989 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9991 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9992 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9993 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9994 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9996 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9997 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9998 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9999 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10001 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10002 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10003 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10004 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10005 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10006 Closes ticket 24978.
10008 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10009 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10010 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10011 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10012 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10013 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10014 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10015 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10016 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10018 o Minor features (geoip):
10019 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10022 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10023 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10024 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10025 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10026 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10028 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10029 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10030 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10031 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10032 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10034 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10035 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10036 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10037 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10038 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10041 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10042 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10043 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10044 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10045 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10046 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10047 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10048 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10049 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10050 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10051 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10054 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
10055 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10056 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10058 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10059 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10060 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10063 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10064 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10065 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10066 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10067 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10068 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10069 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10071 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10072 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10073 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10074 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10075 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10076 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10077 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10078 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10079 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10082 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10083 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10084 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10085 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10086 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10087 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10089 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10090 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10091 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10092 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10094 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
10095 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10096 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10097 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10098 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10101 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10102 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10103 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10104 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10105 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10106 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10108 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10109 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10110 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10111 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10112 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10113 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10114 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10115 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10116 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10117 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10118 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10119 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10121 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10122 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10123 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10124 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10126 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10127 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10128 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10129 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10131 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10132 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10133 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10134 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10137 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
10138 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10139 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10140 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10141 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10143 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10144 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10146 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10147 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10149 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10150 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10151 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10154 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
10155 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10156 later Tor releases.
10158 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10159 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10161 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10162 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10164 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10167 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10168 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
10169 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10171 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10172 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10173 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10174 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10177 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10178 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10179 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10180 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10181 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10182 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10183 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10184 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10185 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10186 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10187 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10188 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10189 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10191 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10192 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10193 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10194 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10195 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10196 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10197 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10198 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10199 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10201 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10202 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10203 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10204 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10205 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10206 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10207 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10209 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
10210 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10211 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10212 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10214 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10215 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10216 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10217 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10218 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10219 Closes ticket 24978.
10221 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10222 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10223 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10224 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10226 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10227 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10228 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10229 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10230 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10231 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10232 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10233 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10234 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10236 o Minor features (geoip):
10237 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10240 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10241 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10242 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10244 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10245 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10246 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10247 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10248 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10250 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10251 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10252 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10253 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10254 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10256 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10257 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10258 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10259 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10260 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10263 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10264 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10265 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10267 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10268 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10269 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10272 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10273 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10274 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10275 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10276 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10277 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10278 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10280 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10281 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10282 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10283 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10284 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10287 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10288 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10289 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10290 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10291 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10292 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10294 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
10295 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10296 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10297 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10299 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10300 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10301 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10302 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10303 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10304 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10305 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10306 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10307 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10308 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10309 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10310 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10312 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
10313 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10314 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10315 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10318 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10319 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10320 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10321 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10322 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10324 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10325 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10327 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10328 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10331 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
10332 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
10333 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
10336 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10337 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10339 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
10340 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
10341 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
10342 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
10343 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
10344 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
10347 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10348 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10350 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10353 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
10354 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
10355 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
10356 the DoS mitigations.)
10358 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10359 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10360 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10361 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10364 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10365 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
10366 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
10367 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10369 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10370 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10371 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10372 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10373 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10374 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10375 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10376 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10377 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10378 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10379 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10380 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10381 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10383 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10384 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10385 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10386 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10387 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10388 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10389 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10390 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
10391 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
10392 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
10393 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10395 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10396 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10397 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10399 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10400 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10401 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10402 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10403 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10404 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10405 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10407 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10408 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
10409 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
10410 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10412 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10413 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10414 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10415 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10417 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10418 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10419 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10420 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10421 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10422 Closes ticket 24978.
10424 o Minor features (geoip):
10425 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10428 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10429 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
10430 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
10433 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10434 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10435 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10436 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10437 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10439 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10440 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10441 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10442 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10443 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10444 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10445 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10447 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10448 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10449 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10450 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10451 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10453 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10454 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
10455 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
10456 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10458 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10459 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
10460 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
10461 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
10462 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10464 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10465 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10466 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10467 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10469 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10470 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10471 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10472 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10474 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10475 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10476 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10477 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10479 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10480 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10482 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10483 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10485 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10486 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
10487 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
10489 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10490 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
10491 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
10492 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
10493 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10495 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10496 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10497 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10499 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
10500 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
10501 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
10505 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
10506 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
10507 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10508 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10510 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
10511 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
10512 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
10513 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
10514 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
10515 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10517 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10520 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
10521 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
10522 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
10523 the DoS mitigations.)
10525 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
10526 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10527 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10528 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10531 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10532 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10533 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10534 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10535 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10536 Closes ticket 24978.
10538 o Minor features (logging):
10539 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10540 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10542 o Minor features (testing):
10543 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10546 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
10547 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10548 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10549 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10550 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10551 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10552 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10554 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
10555 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
10556 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
10557 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10558 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
10559 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
10562 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
10563 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
10564 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
10565 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
10567 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10568 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
10569 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
10570 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
10571 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
10574 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
10575 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10577 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10578 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10580 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
10581 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
10582 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10583 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
10585 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10586 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10587 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10590 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
10591 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
10592 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
10593 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
10594 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
10595 it to older supported release series.
10597 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10598 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10599 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10600 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10601 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10602 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10603 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10604 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10605 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10606 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10607 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10608 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10609 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10611 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10612 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10613 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10614 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10615 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10616 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10617 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10618 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10620 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
10621 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10622 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10624 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
10625 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
10626 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
10627 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10629 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10630 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10631 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10632 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10634 o Minor features (directory authority):
10635 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10636 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10638 o Minor features (geoip):
10639 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10642 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
10643 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
10644 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
10647 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10648 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10649 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10650 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10651 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10653 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10654 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10655 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10656 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10657 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10659 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
10660 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
10661 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
10662 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
10664 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
10665 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
10666 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
10667 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
10668 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10670 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10671 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
10672 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
10673 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10675 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10676 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10677 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10678 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10679 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
10680 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
10681 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10683 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10684 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
10685 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
10686 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
10687 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10688 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
10689 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
10690 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10692 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10693 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
10694 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
10695 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
10696 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
10697 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
10698 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10700 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
10701 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
10702 would call the Rust implementation of
10703 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
10704 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
10705 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
10706 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
10707 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10709 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
10710 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
10711 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
10714 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
10715 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
10716 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
10717 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
10718 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
10719 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10721 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10722 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
10723 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
10724 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
10725 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10727 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10728 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
10730 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
10731 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
10732 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
10735 o Documentation (man page):
10736 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
10737 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
10741 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
10742 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
10743 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
10744 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
10745 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
10746 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
10749 o Major features (embedding):
10750 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10751 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10752 Closes ticket 23684.
10753 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10754 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10755 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10756 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10757 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10758 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10760 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10761 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10762 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10763 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
10764 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10765 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
10766 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
10767 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
10768 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
10769 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10770 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10773 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10774 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10775 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10776 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10777 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10778 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10779 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10781 o Major features (onion services):
10782 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10783 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10784 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10785 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10786 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10789 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10790 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10791 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10792 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10793 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10794 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10795 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10796 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10798 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10799 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10800 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10801 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10802 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10804 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
10805 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10806 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10807 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10808 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10809 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10810 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10812 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10813 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10814 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10815 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10816 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10817 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10818 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10819 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
10820 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
10821 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
10822 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10824 o Major bugfixes (relays):
10825 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10826 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10827 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10828 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10829 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10830 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10832 o Minor feature (IPv6):
10833 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10834 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10835 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10836 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10837 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
10838 Implements ticket 23827.
10840 o Minor features (cleanup):
10841 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10842 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10844 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10845 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10846 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10847 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10848 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10849 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10850 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10851 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10852 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10853 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10855 o Minor features (embedding):
10856 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10857 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10858 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10859 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10860 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10861 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10862 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10863 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10864 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10865 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
10866 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10867 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10868 Closes ticket 23848.
10869 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10870 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10871 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10873 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10874 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
10875 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
10876 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
10877 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
10878 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
10879 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10880 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10883 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10884 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10885 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10886 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10887 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10888 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10889 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10891 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10892 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10893 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10894 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10895 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10896 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10897 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10898 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10899 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10900 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10901 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10902 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10904 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10905 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10906 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10908 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10909 Implements ticket 24791.
10911 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10912 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10913 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10914 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10915 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10916 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10918 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10919 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10920 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10923 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10924 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10925 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10926 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10927 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10929 o Minor features (log messages):
10930 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10931 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10932 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10933 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10935 o Minor features (logging, android):
10936 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10939 o Minor features (performance):
10940 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10941 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10942 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10943 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10945 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10946 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10947 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10948 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10949 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10950 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10951 Implements ticket 24374.
10953 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10954 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10955 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10956 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10957 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10959 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10960 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10961 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10962 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10965 o Major features (relay):
10966 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10967 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10968 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10969 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10970 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10972 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10973 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10974 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10975 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10976 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10977 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10978 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10979 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
10980 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
10982 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
10983 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
10984 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
10985 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10987 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
10988 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
10989 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
10990 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
10991 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
10992 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
10993 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10994 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
10995 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
10996 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10997 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
10998 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
11001 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
11002 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
11003 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
11004 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
11007 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11008 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11009 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11012 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11013 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11014 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11016 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11017 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11018 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11019 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11020 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11022 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11023 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11024 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11025 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11027 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11028 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11029 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11030 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11031 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11032 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11034 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11035 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11036 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11037 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11039 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11040 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11041 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11042 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11043 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11044 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11047 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11048 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11049 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11050 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11052 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
11053 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11054 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11055 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11057 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11058 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11059 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11060 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11061 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11062 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11063 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11064 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11065 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11066 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11067 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11068 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11070 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11071 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11072 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11073 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11074 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11076 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11077 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11079 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11080 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11081 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11082 "aruna1234" and teor.
11083 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
11084 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
11085 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
11086 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
11088 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
11089 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
11090 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
11091 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
11092 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
11093 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
11094 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
11095 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
11096 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
11097 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
11099 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
11100 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
11103 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
11104 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
11106 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
11107 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
11108 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
11109 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
11110 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11111 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11114 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
11115 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
11116 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
11117 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
11118 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
11120 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
11121 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
11122 adding very little except for unit test.
11124 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
11125 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
11126 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
11127 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
11129 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
11130 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
11131 const. Implements ticket 24489.
11134 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11135 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11137 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11138 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11139 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11140 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11141 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11142 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11144 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11145 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11146 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11147 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11148 with the 0.2.9 series.
11150 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
11151 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11153 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11154 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11155 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11156 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11157 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11158 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11159 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11160 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11161 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11163 o Minor features (geoip):
11164 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11167 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11168 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11169 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11170 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11171 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11174 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11175 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
11176 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11178 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11179 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11180 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11181 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11185 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
11186 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
11187 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
11188 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
11189 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
11190 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
11191 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
11193 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
11194 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
11195 will be nearly identical to this.
11197 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
11198 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
11199 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
11200 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
11201 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
11202 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
11203 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11205 o Minor features (geoip):
11206 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11209 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
11210 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
11211 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
11212 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11214 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11215 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11216 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11217 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11218 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11221 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
11222 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
11223 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
11224 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
11225 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
11226 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11229 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
11230 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
11231 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
11233 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
11234 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
11235 be nearly identical to this.
11237 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
11238 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
11239 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
11240 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
11241 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
11242 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
11243 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11245 o Minor features (logging):
11246 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
11249 o Minor features (portability):
11250 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
11251 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
11254 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
11255 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
11256 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
11257 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
11258 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11259 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
11260 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
11261 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
11262 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11263 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
11264 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
11265 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
11266 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11268 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11269 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11270 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11272 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11273 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
11274 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
11275 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
11276 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
11277 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
11278 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
11281 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11282 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
11283 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
11284 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
11285 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
11286 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
11287 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11289 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
11290 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
11291 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
11292 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11293 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
11294 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
11295 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
11296 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11297 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
11298 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
11299 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11302 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
11303 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
11304 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
11305 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
11308 o Major bugfixes (security):
11309 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11310 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11311 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11312 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11313 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11314 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11315 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11316 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11317 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11318 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11320 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11321 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11322 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11323 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11324 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11325 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11326 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11329 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
11330 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11331 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11332 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11333 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11335 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
11336 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11337 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11338 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11339 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11340 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11341 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11342 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11343 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11345 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11346 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11347 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11348 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11350 o Minor features (directory authority):
11351 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11354 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11355 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
11356 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
11357 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11360 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
11361 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
11362 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
11363 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
11365 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11366 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11367 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11368 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11369 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11370 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11371 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11372 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11373 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11374 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11375 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11377 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11378 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11379 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11380 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11381 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11382 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11383 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11386 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11387 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11388 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11389 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11390 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11392 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11393 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11394 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11395 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11396 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11397 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11398 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11399 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11400 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11402 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11403 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11404 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11405 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11406 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11407 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11410 o Minor features (bridge):
11411 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11412 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11413 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11414 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11417 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11418 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11421 o Minor features (geoip):
11422 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11425 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11426 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11427 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11428 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11429 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11431 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11432 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11433 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11435 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11436 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11437 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11438 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11439 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11440 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11442 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11443 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11444 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11447 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11448 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11449 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11450 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11451 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11454 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
11455 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11456 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11457 to another of the releases coming out today.
11459 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
11460 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11461 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11463 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11464 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11465 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11466 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11467 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11468 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11469 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11470 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11471 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11472 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11473 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11475 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11476 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11477 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11478 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11479 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11480 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11481 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11484 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11485 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11486 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11487 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11488 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11490 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11491 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11492 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11493 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11494 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11495 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11496 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11497 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11498 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11500 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11501 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11502 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11503 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11504 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11505 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11508 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11509 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11510 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11511 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11512 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11513 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11515 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11516 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11517 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11518 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11519 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11522 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11523 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11526 o Minor features (geoip):
11527 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11530 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11531 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11532 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11533 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11534 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11536 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11537 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11538 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11540 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11541 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11542 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11543 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11544 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11545 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11547 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11548 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11549 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11550 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11551 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11553 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11554 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11555 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11558 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
11559 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11560 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11561 to another of the releases coming out today.
11563 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11564 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11565 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11566 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11567 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11568 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11571 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11572 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11573 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11574 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11575 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11576 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11577 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11578 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11579 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11580 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11581 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11583 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11584 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11585 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11586 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11587 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11588 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11589 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11592 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11593 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11594 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11595 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11596 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11598 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11599 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11600 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11601 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11602 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11603 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11605 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11606 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11607 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11608 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11609 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11612 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11613 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11616 o Minor features (geoip):
11617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11620 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11621 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11622 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11623 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11624 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11625 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11627 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11628 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11629 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11630 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11631 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11633 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11634 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11635 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11637 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11638 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11639 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11640 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11641 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11642 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11644 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11645 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11646 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11647 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11648 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11650 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11651 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11652 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11655 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
11656 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11657 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11658 to another of the releases coming out today.
11660 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11661 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
11662 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11664 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11665 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11666 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11667 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11668 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11669 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11670 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11671 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11672 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11673 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11674 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11675 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11676 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11677 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11678 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11681 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11682 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11683 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11684 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11685 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11687 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11688 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
11689 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
11690 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
11691 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
11694 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11695 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11696 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11697 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11698 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11701 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11702 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11705 o Minor features (geoip):
11706 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11709 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11710 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11711 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11714 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
11715 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11716 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11717 to another of the releases coming out today.
11719 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
11720 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
11721 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11723 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11724 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11725 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11726 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11727 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11728 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11729 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11730 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11731 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11732 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11733 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11734 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11735 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11736 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11737 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11740 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11741 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11742 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11743 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11744 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11745 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11747 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11748 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11749 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11750 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11751 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11754 o Minor features (geoip):
11755 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11759 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
11760 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
11761 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
11762 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
11763 since the 0.3.0.x series.
11765 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
11766 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
11769 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11770 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11771 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11772 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11773 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11774 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11775 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11776 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11777 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11778 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11779 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11782 o Minor features (directory authority):
11783 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
11784 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
11785 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
11786 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
11788 o Minor features (geoip):
11789 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11792 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11793 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11794 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11796 o Minor features (logging):
11797 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
11798 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
11800 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
11801 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
11803 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11804 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
11805 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
11806 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11807 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
11808 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
11809 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
11810 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
11812 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11813 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11814 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11817 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
11818 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
11819 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
11820 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11822 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
11823 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11824 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11825 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11826 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11827 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11828 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11829 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11830 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11833 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11834 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
11835 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11836 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
11837 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
11838 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
11839 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11841 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11842 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11843 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11844 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11845 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11846 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11848 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11849 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
11850 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
11851 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
11852 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11853 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11854 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11856 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
11857 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
11858 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11860 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
11861 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
11862 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
11863 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
11864 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
11865 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
11866 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
11867 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
11870 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
11871 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
11872 section. Closes ticket 24254.
11875 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
11876 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
11877 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
11878 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
11881 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
11882 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11883 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11884 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11885 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11886 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11889 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
11890 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
11891 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
11892 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
11893 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11895 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
11896 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
11897 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
11898 Closes ticket 23753.
11900 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
11901 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
11902 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
11903 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
11904 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
11906 o Minor features (testing):
11907 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
11908 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
11910 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11911 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
11912 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
11913 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
11914 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11916 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
11917 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
11918 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
11919 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
11920 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
11923 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
11924 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
11925 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
11926 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
11927 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11929 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
11930 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
11931 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
11932 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11934 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11935 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
11936 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
11938 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
11939 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11940 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
11942 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11943 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
11944 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
11945 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11946 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
11947 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11949 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11950 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11951 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11952 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11953 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11954 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11955 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11956 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11957 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11958 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11959 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11960 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11962 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
11963 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11964 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11965 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11966 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11968 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11969 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
11970 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11971 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
11972 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
11973 Closes ticket 24109.
11976 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
11977 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
11978 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
11979 directory authority, Bastet.
11981 o Directory authority changes:
11982 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11983 Closes ticket 23910.
11984 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11985 Closes ticket 23592.
11987 o Minor features (bridge):
11988 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
11989 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
11990 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
11991 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
11992 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
11993 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
11994 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
11996 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
11997 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
11998 Resolves ticket 23670.
12000 o Minor features (geoip):
12001 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12004 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
12005 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
12006 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12007 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12009 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12010 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12011 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12013 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12014 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12015 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12016 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12017 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12018 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12020 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
12021 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12022 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12023 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
12024 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
12025 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12027 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12028 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
12029 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
12030 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
12032 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
12033 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
12034 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12036 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
12037 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
12038 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12039 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12040 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12042 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12043 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12044 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12046 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12047 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
12048 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
12051 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12052 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
12053 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
12054 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12055 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12056 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
12057 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
12058 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
12060 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
12061 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
12062 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
12063 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
12064 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
12067 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
12068 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
12069 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
12070 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
12071 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
12075 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12076 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12077 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12079 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12080 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12081 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12083 o Directory authority changes:
12084 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12085 Closes ticket 23910.
12086 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12087 Closes ticket 23592.
12089 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12090 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12091 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12092 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12093 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12095 o Minor features (geoip):
12096 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12099 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12100 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12101 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12102 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12103 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12104 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12105 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12106 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12107 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12109 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12110 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12111 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12112 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12113 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12114 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12115 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12116 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12117 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12120 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
12121 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12122 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12123 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12125 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12126 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12127 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12129 o Directory authority changes:
12130 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12131 Closes ticket 23910.
12132 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12133 Closes ticket 23592.
12135 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12136 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12137 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12138 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12140 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12141 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12142 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12143 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12144 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12146 o Minor features (geoip):
12147 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12151 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
12152 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12153 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12154 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12156 o Directory authority changes:
12157 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12158 Closes ticket 23910.
12159 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12160 Closes ticket 23592.
12162 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12163 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12164 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12165 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12167 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12168 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12169 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12170 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12171 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12173 o Minor features (geoip):
12174 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12177 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12178 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12179 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12180 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12181 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12182 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12183 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12184 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12187 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12188 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12189 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12191 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12192 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12193 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12194 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12195 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12196 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12197 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12200 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
12201 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12202 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12203 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12205 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12206 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12207 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12209 o Directory authority changes:
12210 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12211 Closes ticket 23910.
12212 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12213 Closes ticket 23592.
12215 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12216 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12217 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12218 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12220 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12221 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12222 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12223 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12224 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12226 o Minor features (geoip):
12227 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12230 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12231 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12232 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12233 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12234 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12235 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12236 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12237 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12240 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12241 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12242 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12243 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12245 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12246 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12247 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12249 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12250 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12251 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12252 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12253 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12254 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12255 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12258 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
12259 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12260 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
12261 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
12262 a new directory authority, Bastet.
12264 o Directory authority changes:
12265 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12266 Closes ticket 23910.
12267 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12268 Closes ticket 23592.
12270 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12271 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12272 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12273 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12275 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12276 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12277 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12278 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12279 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12281 o Minor features (geoip):
12282 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12285 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12286 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12287 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12288 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12290 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12291 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12292 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12295 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12296 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
12297 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
12299 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12300 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12301 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12302 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12304 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12305 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12306 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12308 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12309 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12310 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12314 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
12315 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
12316 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
12317 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
12318 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
12319 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
12321 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
12322 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
12323 include better testing and logging.
12325 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
12328 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
12329 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12330 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12331 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12333 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
12334 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
12335 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
12336 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
12337 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
12338 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
12339 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12341 o Minor features (build, compilation):
12342 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
12343 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
12344 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
12345 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
12346 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
12347 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
12348 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
12349 Closes ticket 23643.
12351 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12352 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12353 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12354 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12355 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12357 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
12358 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
12359 the circuit identifier(s).
12360 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
12361 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
12363 o Minor features (logging):
12364 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
12365 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
12366 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
12367 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
12368 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
12370 o Minor features (relay):
12371 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
12372 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
12373 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
12374 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
12376 o Minor features (robustness):
12377 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
12378 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
12380 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
12381 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
12382 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
12383 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
12384 related to ticket 23080.
12386 o Minor features (testing):
12387 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
12388 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
12391 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12392 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
12393 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
12395 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
12396 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
12399 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
12400 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12401 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12402 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12403 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
12404 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
12405 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
12406 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
12407 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12409 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12410 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12411 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12414 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12415 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12416 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12417 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12419 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
12420 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
12421 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
12422 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
12423 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12424 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
12425 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
12426 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
12429 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
12430 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12431 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12432 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12434 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12435 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12436 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12437 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12438 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12439 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12441 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
12442 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
12443 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
12444 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12445 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
12446 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
12447 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12448 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
12449 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12450 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
12451 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
12453 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
12454 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
12455 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
12456 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12457 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
12458 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12460 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12461 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12462 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12464 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12465 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12467 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
12468 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
12469 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12471 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12472 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12473 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12476 o Deprecated features:
12477 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12478 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12479 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12482 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
12483 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12484 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12485 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12486 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12487 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12488 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12489 Closes ticket 18736.
12492 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
12493 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
12494 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
12495 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
12496 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
12497 features and bugfixes here.
12499 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
12501 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
12502 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
12503 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
12504 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
12505 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
12506 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
12507 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
12508 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
12509 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
12510 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
12511 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
12512 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
12514 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
12515 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
12516 more information, see the design paper at
12517 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
12518 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
12519 Closes ticket 12541.
12521 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
12522 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
12523 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
12524 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
12525 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
12526 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
12529 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
12530 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
12532 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
12535 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
12538 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
12540 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
12542 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
12544 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
12545 they are 56 characters long, as in
12546 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
12548 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
12549 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
12550 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
12551 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
12552 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
12555 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
12556 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
12557 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
12558 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
12559 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
12560 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
12563 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
12564 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
12565 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
12566 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
12568 o Minor features (bug detection):
12569 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
12570 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
12571 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
12573 o Minor features (client):
12574 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
12575 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
12576 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
12577 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
12578 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
12579 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
12580 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
12581 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
12582 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
12583 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
12585 o Minor features (command line):
12586 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
12587 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
12588 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
12590 o Minor features (control port):
12591 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
12592 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
12593 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
12595 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
12596 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
12598 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
12599 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
12600 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
12601 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
12602 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
12603 Closes ticket 23237.
12604 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
12605 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12607 o Minor features (development support):
12608 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
12609 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
12610 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
12611 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
12612 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
12613 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
12615 o Minor features (ed25519):
12616 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
12617 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
12618 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
12620 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
12621 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
12622 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
12624 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
12625 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
12626 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
12627 another program, regardless of the settings of
12628 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
12629 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
12630 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
12632 o Minor features (logging):
12633 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
12634 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
12635 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
12637 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
12638 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
12640 o Minor features (portability):
12641 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
12642 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
12643 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
12644 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
12646 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
12647 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
12648 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
12649 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
12650 results. Closes ticket 22731.
12652 o Minor features (startup, safety):
12653 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
12654 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
12657 o Minor features (static analysis):
12658 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
12659 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
12662 o Minor features (testing):
12663 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
12664 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
12665 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
12666 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
12667 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
12669 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12670 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
12671 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
12672 Coverity as CID 1415728.
12674 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
12675 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
12676 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
12677 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
12678 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
12679 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
12680 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
12681 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12683 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12684 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
12685 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
12686 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
12687 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12688 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
12689 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
12690 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12692 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12693 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12694 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12696 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12697 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12698 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12699 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12701 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12702 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12703 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12704 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12705 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12706 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12708 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12709 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12712 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12713 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12714 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12715 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12717 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12718 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12719 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12720 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12721 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12722 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12723 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12726 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12727 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12728 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12729 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12731 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
12732 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12733 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12735 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12736 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12737 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12738 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12739 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12740 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12742 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12743 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12744 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12746 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12747 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12748 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12750 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12751 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12752 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12753 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12755 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12756 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12757 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12759 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12760 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12761 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12762 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12763 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12764 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12765 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12766 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12768 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12769 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12770 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12771 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12772 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12773 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12774 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12776 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12777 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12778 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12779 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12781 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12782 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12783 function from the general code to handle channel state
12784 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12785 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12786 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12787 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12788 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12789 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12790 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12791 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12793 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12794 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12796 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12797 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12798 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12799 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12800 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12801 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12802 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12803 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12804 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12805 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12806 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12807 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12809 o Deprecated features:
12810 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12811 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12812 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12816 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12817 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12818 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12819 Closes ticket 15645.
12820 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12821 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12822 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12823 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12825 o Removed features:
12826 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12827 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12828 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12829 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12830 Closes ticket 21031.
12831 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12832 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12835 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
12836 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12839 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12840 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12841 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12842 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12844 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12845 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
12846 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
12847 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
12849 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12850 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12851 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12852 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12853 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12856 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12859 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12860 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12861 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12864 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12865 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12866 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12867 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12868 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12869 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12870 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12871 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12872 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12874 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12875 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12876 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12877 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12878 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12879 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12880 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12881 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12882 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12885 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
12886 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12889 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12890 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12891 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12892 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12894 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12895 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12896 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12897 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12898 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12899 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12900 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12902 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12903 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12904 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12905 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12907 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12908 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12909 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12911 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12912 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12913 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12914 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12916 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12917 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12918 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12919 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12920 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12922 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12923 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12924 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12925 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12927 o Minor features (geoip):
12928 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12931 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12932 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12933 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12934 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12936 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12937 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12938 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12939 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
12940 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12941 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
12942 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
12943 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12945 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12946 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
12947 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12949 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12950 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12951 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12954 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12955 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12956 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12957 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
12958 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12960 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12961 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12962 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12963 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12964 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12965 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12967 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12968 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12969 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12970 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12971 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12972 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12973 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12974 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12975 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12977 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12978 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12979 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12980 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12982 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12983 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12984 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12986 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12987 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12988 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12989 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12990 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12992 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12993 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12994 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12997 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12998 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12999 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13000 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13001 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13003 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13004 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13005 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13006 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13007 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13008 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13009 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13010 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13011 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13014 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13015 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13018 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13019 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13020 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13021 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13023 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13024 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13025 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13026 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13029 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13032 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13033 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13034 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13036 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13037 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13038 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13039 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13040 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13042 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13043 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13044 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13045 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13047 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13048 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13049 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13051 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13052 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13053 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13054 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13057 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13058 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13060 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13061 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13062 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13063 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13064 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13065 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13066 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13068 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13069 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13070 disabled. For more information, see
13071 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13073 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13074 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13075 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13076 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13077 with the 0.2.9 series.
13079 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
13080 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13082 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13083 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13084 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13085 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
13086 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13088 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13089 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13090 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13091 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13094 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13095 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13096 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13097 attempt for bug 23105.
13099 o Minor features (geoip):
13100 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13103 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13104 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13105 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13107 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13108 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13109 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13110 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13111 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13113 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13114 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
13115 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
13116 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13118 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13119 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
13120 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
13124 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
13125 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
13126 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
13127 Windows directory caches.
13129 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
13130 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
13131 will be nearly identical to it.
13133 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
13134 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
13135 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
13136 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
13137 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
13138 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13140 o Minor features (directory authority):
13141 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13142 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13143 Closes ticket 22348.
13145 o Minor features (geoip):
13146 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13149 o Minor features (testing):
13150 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13153 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
13154 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
13155 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13157 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13158 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13159 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13160 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13161 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13162 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13163 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13164 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13165 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
13166 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13168 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13169 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13170 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13172 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13173 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13174 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13175 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13177 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13178 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
13179 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
13180 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
13181 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13183 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
13184 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
13185 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
13186 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
13187 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
13188 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13190 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
13191 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
13192 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13193 with the clang static analyzer.
13195 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13196 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13197 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13198 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
13199 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
13202 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
13203 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13204 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13205 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13206 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13207 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13208 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13211 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
13212 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
13213 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
13214 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
13216 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13217 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13218 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13219 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13220 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13221 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13222 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13223 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13224 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13226 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13227 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13228 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13229 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13231 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13232 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13233 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13234 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13235 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13237 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13238 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13241 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13242 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13243 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13244 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13246 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13247 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13248 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13249 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13250 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13251 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13252 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13253 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13256 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13257 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13258 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13261 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13262 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13263 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13264 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13265 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13266 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13268 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13269 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13270 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13271 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13273 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13274 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13275 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13277 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
13278 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13279 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13282 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
13283 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
13284 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
13285 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
13286 next version will be a release candidate.
13288 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
13289 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
13290 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
13291 one of those versions should upgrade.
13293 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13294 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13295 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13296 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13297 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13298 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13299 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13300 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13301 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13303 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13304 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13305 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13306 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13307 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13309 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
13310 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
13311 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
13312 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
13313 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
13314 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13316 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13317 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13318 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13320 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13321 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13322 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13323 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13324 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13327 o Minor features (geoip):
13328 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13331 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13332 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13333 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13334 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13335 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13336 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13339 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
13340 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
13341 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
13342 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
13343 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
13345 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
13346 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
13347 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
13348 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
13349 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13351 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13352 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13353 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13354 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13355 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13356 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
13357 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
13358 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13359 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13360 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13361 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13364 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13365 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13366 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13367 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13368 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13369 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13371 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13372 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13373 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13374 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13375 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13376 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13377 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13378 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13381 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13382 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13383 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13386 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13387 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13388 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13389 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13391 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13392 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13393 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13395 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13396 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
13397 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
13398 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
13400 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13401 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
13402 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
13403 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
13404 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13405 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13406 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13409 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
13410 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
13411 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
13412 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
13413 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
13416 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
13417 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
13420 o New dependencies:
13421 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13422 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
13423 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
13424 close ticket 22623.)
13426 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13427 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13428 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13429 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13430 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13431 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13433 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
13434 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
13435 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
13436 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13438 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
13439 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
13440 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
13441 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
13442 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13444 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13445 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13446 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13447 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13449 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
13450 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13451 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13452 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13454 o Minor features (geoip):
13455 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13458 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13459 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
13460 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
13462 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
13463 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13464 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
13465 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
13466 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
13467 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
13469 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
13470 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
13472 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13473 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13474 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13475 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13476 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13478 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13479 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13480 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13481 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13482 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13483 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13484 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13485 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13486 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13487 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13488 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13489 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13491 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13492 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13493 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13494 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13495 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13496 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
13497 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
13498 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
13499 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13501 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13502 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13503 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13504 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13505 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13506 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13507 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13508 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13509 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13510 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13511 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13512 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
13513 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
13514 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
13515 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
13516 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13518 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
13519 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
13520 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
13521 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
13522 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
13523 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
13524 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
13528 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
13530 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
13531 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
13533 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
13534 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
13535 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
13539 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
13540 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
13541 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
13542 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
13543 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
13546 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
13549 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13550 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13551 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13552 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13553 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13554 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13556 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13557 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13558 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13559 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13561 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13562 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13563 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13564 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13566 o Minor features (geoip):
13567 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13570 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13571 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13572 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13573 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13574 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13576 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13577 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13578 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13579 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13580 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13582 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13583 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13584 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13585 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13586 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13587 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13588 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13589 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13590 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13593 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
13594 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13595 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13596 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13597 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13599 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13600 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13601 bugfixes described below.
13603 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13604 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13605 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13606 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13607 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13608 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13609 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13612 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13613 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13614 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13615 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13616 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13617 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13618 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13621 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13622 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13623 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13624 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13625 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13626 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13627 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13628 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13629 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13630 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13631 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13632 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13633 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13636 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
13637 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
13638 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
13640 o Minor features (code style):
13641 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13642 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13643 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13645 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13646 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13647 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13648 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13649 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13651 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13652 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13653 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13655 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
13656 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
13657 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13659 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13660 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13661 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13662 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13663 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13664 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13665 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13667 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
13668 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
13669 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
13670 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
13671 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13673 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13674 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
13675 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
13679 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
13682 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
13683 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13684 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13685 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13686 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13688 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13689 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13690 bugfixes described below.
13692 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13693 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13694 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13695 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13696 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13697 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13698 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13699 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13702 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13703 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13704 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13705 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13706 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13707 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13708 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13711 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13712 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13713 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13714 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13715 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13716 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13717 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13718 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13719 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13720 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13721 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13722 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13723 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13726 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13727 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
13728 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
13731 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13732 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13733 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13734 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13735 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13737 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13738 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13739 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13741 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13742 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13743 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13745 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13746 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13747 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13748 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13749 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13750 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13751 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13753 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
13755 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13756 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13757 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13760 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
13761 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13762 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13763 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13764 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13765 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13767 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
13768 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13769 bugfixes described below.
13771 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13772 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13773 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13774 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13775 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13778 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13779 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13780 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13781 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13782 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13783 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13784 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13787 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13788 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13789 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13790 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13791 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13793 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13794 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
13795 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13796 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13797 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13798 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13799 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13801 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
13802 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
13803 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
13804 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
13805 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
13807 o Minor features (geoip):
13808 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13811 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
13812 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13813 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13814 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13816 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13817 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13818 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13820 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13821 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13822 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13823 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13824 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13827 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
13828 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13829 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13830 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13831 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13833 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
13834 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13835 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13836 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13837 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13838 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13840 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13841 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13842 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13843 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13846 o Minor features (geoip):
13847 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13850 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13851 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13852 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13853 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13854 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13856 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13857 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13858 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13860 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
13861 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13862 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13863 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13864 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13865 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13867 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13868 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13869 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13870 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13873 o Minor features (geoip):
13874 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13877 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13878 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13879 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13882 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
13883 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13884 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13885 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13886 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13887 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13889 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13890 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13891 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13892 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13895 o Minor features (geoip):
13896 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13899 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13900 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13901 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13903 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
13904 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13905 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13906 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13907 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13908 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13910 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13911 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13912 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13913 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13916 o Minor features (geoip):
13917 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13920 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13921 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13922 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13924 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
13925 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13926 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13927 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13928 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13929 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13931 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13932 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13933 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13934 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13937 o Minor features (geoip):
13938 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13941 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13942 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13943 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13946 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
13947 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
13948 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
13949 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
13951 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
13952 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
13953 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
13954 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
13955 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13957 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13958 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13959 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13962 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
13963 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13964 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13965 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13968 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
13969 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
13970 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
13971 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
13972 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
13975 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
13976 security, correctness, and performance.
13978 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
13980 o Major features (directory protocol):
13981 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13982 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13983 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13984 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13985 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13986 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13987 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13988 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13989 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13990 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13991 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13992 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13993 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13994 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13995 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13996 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13997 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13999 o Major features (experimental):
14000 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
14001 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
14002 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
14003 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
14004 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
14005 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
14006 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
14008 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
14009 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
14010 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
14011 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
14012 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
14013 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
14016 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
14017 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
14018 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
14019 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
14020 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
14021 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
14022 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
14023 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
14024 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
14025 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
14026 multiples of 10000.
14028 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
14029 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
14030 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
14031 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
14032 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
14033 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
14034 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
14035 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
14036 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14037 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
14038 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
14039 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
14040 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
14041 Otherwise it is at info.
14043 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
14044 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14045 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14046 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14048 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
14049 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14050 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14051 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14053 o Minor features (security, windows):
14054 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14055 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14056 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14057 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14058 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14060 o Minor features (config options):
14061 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
14062 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
14063 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
14064 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
14065 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
14066 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
14067 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
14068 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
14070 o Minor features (controller):
14071 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
14072 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
14074 o Minor features (defaults):
14075 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
14076 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
14077 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
14078 can. Closes ticket 21407.
14079 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
14080 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
14081 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
14082 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
14083 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
14084 Closes ticket 21641.
14086 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
14087 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
14088 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
14089 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14090 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14091 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14092 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14094 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
14095 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
14096 introduction points than specified in
14097 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
14098 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
14099 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
14100 21594; closes ticket 21622.
14101 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
14102 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
14103 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
14104 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
14106 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14107 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
14108 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
14109 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
14110 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
14111 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
14112 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
14113 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
14114 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
14115 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
14117 o Minor features (logging):
14118 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
14119 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
14120 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
14121 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
14124 o Minor features (performance):
14125 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
14126 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
14128 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
14129 speed some controller functions.
14131 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
14132 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
14133 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
14134 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
14136 o Minor features (safety):
14137 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
14138 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
14139 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
14142 o Minor features (testing):
14143 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
14144 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
14145 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
14146 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
14147 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
14148 on. Closes ticket 21439.
14149 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
14150 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
14151 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
14152 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
14153 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
14154 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
14155 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
14156 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
14157 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
14158 21507. Partially implements 21470.
14160 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
14161 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14162 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14163 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14165 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14166 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
14167 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
14168 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
14171 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14172 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14173 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14175 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
14176 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
14177 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
14178 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
14179 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
14180 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
14181 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14182 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
14183 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
14184 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
14185 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
14186 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
14187 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
14188 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
14190 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14191 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
14192 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14193 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
14194 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
14195 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
14196 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
14197 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14199 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14200 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14201 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14202 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14203 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
14204 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
14205 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
14207 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
14208 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
14209 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
14210 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
14211 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
14213 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14214 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
14215 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14216 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
14217 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
14218 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14219 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
14220 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14221 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
14222 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
14223 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14225 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14226 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
14227 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
14228 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14229 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
14230 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
14231 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14233 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14234 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
14235 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14237 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
14238 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
14239 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
14240 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
14241 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14243 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14244 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
14245 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
14246 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14247 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
14248 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14249 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
14250 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
14251 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
14252 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
14254 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
14255 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14256 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14257 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14258 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14260 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
14261 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
14262 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14264 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14265 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
14266 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
14267 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
14268 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
14269 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
14270 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
14271 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
14272 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
14273 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
14274 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
14275 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
14277 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
14278 Resolves ticket 22213.
14279 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
14280 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
14281 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
14282 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
14283 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
14284 types. Closes ticket 21651.
14285 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
14286 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
14289 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
14290 Closes ticket 21873.
14291 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
14292 Closes ticket 21151.
14293 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
14294 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
14296 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
14297 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14298 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
14299 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
14301 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
14302 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
14303 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14304 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
14305 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
14306 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
14307 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
14308 default behavior is now unavailable.
14309 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
14310 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
14311 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
14312 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
14313 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
14314 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
14315 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
14317 o Removed features (tools):
14318 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
14319 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
14320 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
14321 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
14322 required. Closes ticket 21842.
14325 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14326 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14327 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14328 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14329 clients are not affected.
14331 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14332 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14333 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14334 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14335 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14336 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14339 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14342 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14343 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14344 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14345 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14346 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14347 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14348 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14350 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14351 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14352 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14353 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14354 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14358 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14359 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14361 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14362 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14363 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14364 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14365 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14366 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14369 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14370 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14372 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14373 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14374 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14375 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14376 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14378 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
14379 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14381 o Minor features (geoip):
14382 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14385 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
14386 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14387 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14388 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14390 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14391 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14392 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14393 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14396 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
14397 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
14398 0.3.0 release series.
14400 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
14401 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
14402 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
14405 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14406 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14407 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14408 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14410 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
14411 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
14412 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
14413 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14414 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
14416 o Minor features (geoip):
14417 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14420 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
14421 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
14422 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
14423 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
14426 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14427 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14428 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14429 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14430 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14431 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14432 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14433 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14435 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14436 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
14437 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14439 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14440 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14441 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14444 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14445 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
14446 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
14447 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
14448 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14451 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
14452 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
14453 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
14457 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
14458 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
14459 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
14460 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14461 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
14464 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14465 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
14466 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14468 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14469 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14470 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14471 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14472 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14473 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14474 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14476 o Minor features (geoip):
14477 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14481 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
14482 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14483 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
14484 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14487 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14488 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14489 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14491 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14492 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14494 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14495 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14496 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14498 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14499 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14500 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14503 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14504 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14505 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14506 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14507 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14508 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14509 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14510 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14511 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14513 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14514 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14515 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14516 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14517 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14518 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14519 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14520 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14521 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14522 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14523 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14524 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14525 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14527 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14528 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14529 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14530 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14531 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14533 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14534 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14535 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14537 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14538 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14539 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14540 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14541 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14542 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14543 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14546 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14547 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14548 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14549 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14550 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14551 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14552 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14554 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14555 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14556 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14557 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14560 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14561 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14562 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14563 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14565 o Minor features (geoip):
14566 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14570 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
14571 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14572 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
14573 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14576 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14577 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14578 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14580 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14581 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14583 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14584 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14585 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14587 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14588 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14589 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14592 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14593 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14594 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14595 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14596 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14597 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14598 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14599 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14600 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14602 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14603 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14604 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14605 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14606 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14607 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14608 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14609 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14610 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14612 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14613 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14614 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14615 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14616 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14618 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14619 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14620 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14621 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14622 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14625 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14626 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14627 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14628 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14629 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14631 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14632 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14633 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14635 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14636 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14637 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14638 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14639 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14640 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14643 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14644 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14645 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14646 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14647 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14648 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14649 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14652 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14653 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14654 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14655 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14656 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14657 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14658 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14660 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14661 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14662 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14663 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14666 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14667 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14668 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14669 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14671 o Minor features (geoip):
14672 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14675 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14676 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14677 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14680 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
14681 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14682 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
14683 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14686 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14687 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
14688 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14690 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14691 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14693 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14694 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14695 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14697 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14698 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14699 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14702 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14703 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14704 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14705 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14706 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14707 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14708 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14709 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14710 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14712 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14713 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14714 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14715 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14716 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14717 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14718 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14719 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14720 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14722 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14723 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14724 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14725 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14726 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14728 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14729 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14730 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14731 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14732 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14735 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14736 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14737 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14738 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14739 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14741 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14742 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14743 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14745 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14746 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14747 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14748 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14749 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14750 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14753 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14754 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14755 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14756 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14757 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14758 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14759 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14762 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14763 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14764 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14765 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14766 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14767 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14768 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14770 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14771 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14772 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14773 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14776 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14777 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14778 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14779 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14781 o Minor features (geoip):
14782 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14785 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14786 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14787 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14789 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
14790 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14791 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14792 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14793 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14794 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14796 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14797 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14798 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14802 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
14803 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14804 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
14805 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14808 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
14809 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14810 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14812 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14813 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14815 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14816 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14817 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14819 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14820 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14821 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14824 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14825 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14826 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14827 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14828 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14829 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14830 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14831 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14832 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14834 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14835 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14836 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14837 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14838 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14839 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14840 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14841 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14842 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14844 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14845 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14846 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14847 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14848 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14851 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14852 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14853 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14854 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14855 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14857 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14858 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14859 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14861 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14862 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14863 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14864 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14865 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14866 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14869 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14870 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14871 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14872 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14873 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14874 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14875 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14878 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14879 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14880 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14881 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14882 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14883 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14884 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14886 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14887 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14888 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14889 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14892 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14893 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14894 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14895 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14897 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14898 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14899 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14900 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14902 o Minor features (geoip):
14903 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14906 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14907 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14908 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14910 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14911 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14912 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14916 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
14917 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
14918 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
14919 keep them from coming back.
14921 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
14922 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
14923 will be nearly identical to it.
14925 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
14926 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
14927 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
14928 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
14929 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
14930 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14932 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
14933 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
14934 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14936 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14937 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14938 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14939 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14940 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14941 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14942 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14943 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14944 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14945 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14946 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14947 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14948 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14949 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14950 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14952 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14953 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14954 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14956 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14957 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14958 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14960 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14961 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14962 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14963 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14964 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14965 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14966 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14968 o Minor features (geoip):
14969 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14972 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14973 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14974 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14977 o Minor features (testing):
14978 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14979 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14980 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14982 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14983 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14984 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14986 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14987 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14988 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14989 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
14990 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
14991 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14993 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14994 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14995 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14996 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14997 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14998 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14999 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
15002 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
15003 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
15004 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
15005 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15006 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
15007 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
15008 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15010 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15011 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
15012 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
15013 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
15014 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
15015 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15017 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15018 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
15019 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
15021 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
15022 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15023 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
15024 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
15025 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15028 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15031 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15032 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15033 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15034 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15036 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15037 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15038 least January of 2020.
15040 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15041 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15042 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15043 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15046 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15047 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15048 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15049 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15050 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15051 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15052 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15054 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15055 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15056 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15057 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15058 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15059 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15060 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15062 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15063 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15064 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15066 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15067 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15068 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15070 o Minor features (geoip):
15071 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15074 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15075 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15076 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15078 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15079 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15081 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15082 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15083 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15085 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15086 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15087 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15088 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15089 Patch by "junglefowl".
15092 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
15093 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
15094 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
15095 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
15096 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
15097 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
15099 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
15100 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
15101 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
15104 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
15105 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15106 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15107 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15109 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
15110 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
15111 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
15112 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
15113 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15115 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
15116 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
15117 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
15118 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
15119 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15121 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
15122 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15123 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15124 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15125 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15126 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15127 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15129 o Minor feature (client):
15130 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
15131 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
15133 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
15134 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
15135 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
15136 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
15138 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
15139 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
15140 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
15141 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
15142 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
15144 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
15145 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
15146 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
15147 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
15148 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
15149 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
15150 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
15151 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
15152 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
15153 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
15155 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
15156 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15157 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15159 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15160 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15162 o Minor features (relay):
15163 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
15164 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
15165 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
15166 Written by Michael Sonntag.
15168 o Minor bugfix (logging):
15169 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
15170 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
15171 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
15172 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
15175 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15176 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
15177 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
15178 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15180 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
15181 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
15182 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
15184 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
15185 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15186 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
15187 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
15188 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15189 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
15190 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
15192 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
15193 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
15194 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
15195 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
15196 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
15197 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
15198 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
15201 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15202 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
15203 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15205 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15206 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
15207 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
15208 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
15209 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15210 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
15211 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
15212 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
15214 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
15215 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
15216 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15218 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15219 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
15220 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
15221 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
15223 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
15224 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
15225 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
15226 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15228 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
15229 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15230 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15231 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15232 Patch by "junglefowl".
15234 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
15235 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
15236 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
15240 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
15241 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15242 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15243 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15244 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15245 version should upgrade.
15247 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
15248 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
15249 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
15250 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
15251 the set of fallback directories, and more.
15253 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
15254 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15255 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
15256 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
15257 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
15258 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
15261 o Major features (security):
15262 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
15263 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
15264 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
15265 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
15266 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
15267 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
15269 o Major features (directory authority, security):
15270 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
15271 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
15272 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
15274 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
15275 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
15276 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
15277 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
15278 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
15281 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
15282 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15283 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15284 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15285 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15286 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15287 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15288 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15289 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15290 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15291 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15293 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
15294 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
15295 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15297 o Minor features (controller):
15298 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
15299 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
15301 o Minor features (entry guards):
15302 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
15303 break regression tests.
15304 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
15305 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
15307 o Minor features (fallback directories):
15308 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
15310 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
15311 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
15312 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
15313 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
15314 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
15315 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
15316 Closes ticket 20539.
15317 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
15319 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
15320 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
15321 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
15322 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
15323 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
15325 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
15326 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
15327 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
15328 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
15329 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
15330 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
15331 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
15332 Closes ticket 20822.
15333 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
15334 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
15336 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
15337 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15340 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
15341 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
15342 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
15343 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
15345 o Minor features (linting):
15346 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
15347 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
15349 o Minor features (logging):
15350 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
15351 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
15353 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
15354 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
15355 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
15356 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
15357 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
15358 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
15360 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
15361 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
15362 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
15363 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
15365 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15366 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
15367 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
15370 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
15371 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
15372 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
15373 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15375 o Minor bugfixes (config):
15376 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
15377 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
15378 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
15379 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15381 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15382 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
15383 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
15386 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
15387 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
15388 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
15389 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
15390 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15392 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15393 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
15394 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
15396 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15397 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
15398 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15399 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
15400 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
15401 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
15402 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15403 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
15404 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15406 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
15407 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
15408 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
15409 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15411 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
15412 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
15413 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
15414 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15415 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
15416 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15418 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15419 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
15420 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15421 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
15422 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
15423 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
15424 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
15425 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
15427 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
15428 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
15429 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15431 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
15432 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15433 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15434 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15436 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15437 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15439 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15440 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
15441 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
15442 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
15443 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
15445 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15446 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
15447 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15449 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15450 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
15451 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
15452 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
15453 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15455 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15456 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
15457 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
15459 o Documentation (formatting):
15460 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
15461 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
15463 o Documentation (man page):
15464 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
15465 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
15468 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15469 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15470 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15471 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15472 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15473 version should upgrade.
15475 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15476 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15478 o Major bugfixes (security):
15479 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15480 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15481 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15482 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15483 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15484 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15486 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15487 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15488 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15489 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15490 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15491 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15492 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15493 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15494 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15495 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15496 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15498 o Minor features (geoip):
15499 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15502 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15503 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15504 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15505 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15507 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15508 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15511 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
15512 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
15513 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
15514 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
15515 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
15516 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
15517 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
15518 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
15520 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
15522 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
15523 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
15524 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
15525 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
15526 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
15529 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
15530 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
15531 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
15532 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
15533 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
15534 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
15535 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
15536 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
15539 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
15540 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
15541 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
15542 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
15543 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
15545 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
15546 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
15547 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
15548 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
15549 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
15550 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
15551 15056; part of proposal 220.
15552 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
15553 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
15554 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
15555 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
15556 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
15558 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
15559 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
15560 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
15561 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
15562 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15564 o Minor features (controller):
15565 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
15566 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
15569 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
15570 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
15571 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
15574 o Minor features (directory authority):
15575 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
15576 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
15577 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
15578 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
15579 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
15581 o Minor features (directory cache):
15582 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
15583 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
15586 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
15587 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
15588 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
15589 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
15591 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
15592 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
15593 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
15594 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
15596 o Minor features (infrastructure):
15597 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
15598 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
15600 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15601 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
15602 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
15603 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
15605 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15606 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
15607 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15608 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
15609 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
15610 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
15612 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
15613 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
15614 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
15615 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
15616 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
15618 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
15619 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
15620 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
15621 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
15622 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15624 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
15625 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
15626 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
15627 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
15628 on all recent tor versions.
15629 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
15630 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
15631 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
15632 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15634 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
15635 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
15636 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15638 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15639 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
15640 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
15641 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
15644 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
15645 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
15646 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
15649 o Minor bugfixes (util):
15650 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
15651 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
15652 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
15653 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
15655 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
15656 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
15657 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
15658 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
15660 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15661 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
15662 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
15663 Closes ticket 19858.
15664 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
15665 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
15666 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
15667 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
15668 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
15669 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
15670 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
15671 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
15672 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15673 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
15674 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
15675 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
15676 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
15677 redundant with the similar structures used in the
15678 channel abstraction.
15679 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
15680 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
15681 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
15682 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15683 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
15684 replaced with code automatically generated by the
15688 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
15689 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15690 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
15691 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
15693 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
15694 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
15696 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
15697 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
15698 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
15699 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
15700 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
15703 o Removed features:
15704 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
15705 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
15706 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
15708 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
15709 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
15710 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
15713 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
15714 from "overcaffeinated".
15715 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
15716 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
15717 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
15718 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
15719 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
15723 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15724 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15725 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15726 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15727 become available for their systems.
15729 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15732 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15733 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15735 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15736 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15737 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15738 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15739 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15740 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15741 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15742 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15743 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15745 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15746 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15747 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15748 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15749 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15751 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15752 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15756 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15757 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15759 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15760 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15761 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15762 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15763 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15764 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15765 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15766 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15768 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15770 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15771 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15772 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15773 become available for their systems.
15775 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
15776 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15778 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
15779 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15780 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15781 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15782 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15783 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15784 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15785 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15786 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15788 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
15789 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15790 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15791 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15792 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15795 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
15796 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
15797 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
15800 o Minor features (geoip):
15801 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15804 o Minor bugfix (build):
15805 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
15806 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
15807 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15809 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15810 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
15811 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
15812 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15814 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
15815 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
15816 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
15818 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15819 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
15820 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
15823 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
15824 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
15825 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15826 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
15827 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
15828 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15830 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15831 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
15832 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
15833 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15835 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15836 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
15837 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
15839 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15840 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
15841 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
15842 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
15843 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
15844 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
15845 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15846 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
15847 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
15848 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
15851 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
15852 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
15853 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
15854 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
15857 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15858 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
15859 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
15860 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
15861 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
15862 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
15865 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15866 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
15867 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
15870 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
15871 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
15872 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
15873 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
15875 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15876 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15877 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15878 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15881 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15882 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15883 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15884 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15887 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
15888 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15889 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15892 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15893 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
15894 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15896 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15897 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
15898 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
15900 o Minor features (geoip):
15901 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15904 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
15905 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
15906 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
15907 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
15908 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
15910 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15911 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15912 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15913 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15914 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15915 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15917 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
15918 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
15919 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15921 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15922 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
15923 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
15924 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
15925 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
15926 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
15928 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15929 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15930 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15932 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
15933 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
15935 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
15936 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
15937 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
15938 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
15939 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
15940 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
15942 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15943 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
15944 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
15948 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
15949 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
15952 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
15953 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
15954 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
15955 everyone to test this release.
15957 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
15958 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15959 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15960 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15963 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
15964 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15965 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15966 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15969 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15970 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
15971 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
15972 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
15973 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15974 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15975 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15976 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15977 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15978 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15980 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
15981 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
15982 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
15983 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15984 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
15985 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15986 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
15987 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
15988 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15989 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15990 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15991 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15993 o Minor features (geoip):
15994 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15997 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
15998 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
15999 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
16000 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
16001 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
16002 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16004 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
16005 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
16006 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
16007 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16008 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
16009 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16011 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16012 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16013 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16014 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
16017 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16018 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16019 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16020 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16021 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16022 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16023 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16024 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16026 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
16027 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16028 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16030 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16031 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16032 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16033 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16034 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16035 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16036 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16037 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16039 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
16040 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
16041 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
16044 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16045 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16046 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16049 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
16050 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16051 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16052 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16055 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16056 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16057 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16058 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16059 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16062 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16063 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16064 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16065 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16066 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16067 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16068 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16069 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16070 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16072 o Minor features (geoip):
16073 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16077 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
16078 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
16079 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
16080 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
16081 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
16084 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
16085 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
16086 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
16087 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
16088 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
16089 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
16090 be a release candidate.
16092 o Major features (security fixes):
16093 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16094 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16095 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16096 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16097 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16098 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16099 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16100 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16102 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
16103 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
16104 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
16105 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
16106 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
16107 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
16108 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
16109 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
16110 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
16111 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
16112 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
16113 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
16114 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
16115 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
16118 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16119 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16120 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16122 o Minor features (client, directory):
16123 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
16124 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
16125 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
16128 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
16129 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
16132 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
16133 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
16134 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
16137 o Minor features (geoip):
16138 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16141 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16142 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
16143 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
16144 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
16145 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
16147 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
16148 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
16149 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
16150 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
16153 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
16154 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
16155 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
16156 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
16157 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
16159 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
16160 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
16161 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
16164 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
16165 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
16166 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
16167 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
16169 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16170 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
16171 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
16172 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
16174 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
16175 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
16176 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
16177 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
16180 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16181 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
16182 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
16186 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16187 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
16189 o Required libraries:
16190 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
16191 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
16192 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
16195 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
16196 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
16197 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
16198 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
16199 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
16200 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
16201 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
16202 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
16204 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
16205 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16206 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16207 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16208 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16209 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16211 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
16212 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16213 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16214 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16215 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16218 o Major features (circuit building, security):
16219 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
16220 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
16221 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
16223 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
16224 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
16226 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
16227 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
16228 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
16229 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
16230 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
16231 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
16232 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
16233 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
16234 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
16235 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
16236 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
16238 o Major features (resource management):
16239 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
16240 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
16241 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
16242 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
16243 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
16244 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
16246 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
16247 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
16248 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
16249 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
16251 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
16252 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
16253 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
16254 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16256 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16257 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
16258 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
16259 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
16260 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
16261 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16263 o Minor features (security, TLS):
16264 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
16265 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
16266 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
16267 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
16269 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16270 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
16271 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
16272 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16274 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
16275 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16278 o Minor feature (port flags):
16279 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
16280 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
16281 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
16282 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
16283 18693; patch by "teor".
16285 o Minor features (directory authority):
16286 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
16287 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
16288 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
16290 o Minor features (testing):
16291 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
16292 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
16293 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
16294 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
16296 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
16297 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
16298 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
16299 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
16300 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
16301 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
16302 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
16303 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
16304 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
16306 o Minor features (Tor2web):
16307 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
16308 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
16309 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
16311 o Minor features (unit tests):
16312 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
16313 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
16314 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
16315 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
16316 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
16317 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
16318 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
16319 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
16321 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
16322 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
16323 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
16324 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
16325 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
16326 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
16327 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
16328 assertion as a test failure.
16330 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
16331 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
16332 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
16333 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
16334 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
16335 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
16337 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
16338 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
16339 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
16340 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
16341 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
16342 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
16343 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
16344 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
16345 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
16346 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
16347 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16348 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16349 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
16350 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
16351 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
16352 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16354 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16355 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
16356 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
16357 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
16358 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16359 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
16360 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
16363 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
16364 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16365 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16366 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
16367 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16368 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16369 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16372 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16373 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
16374 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
16375 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16377 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
16378 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
16379 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
16381 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16382 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
16383 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
16384 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
16385 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
16386 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16388 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16389 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
16390 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
16391 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
16393 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
16394 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
16395 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
16397 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
16398 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
16399 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
16400 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
16401 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
16402 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16404 o Minor bugfixes (options):
16405 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
16406 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
16408 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
16409 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
16410 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16413 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
16414 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
16415 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
16416 19678. Patch by teor.
16418 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16419 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
16420 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
16421 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
16422 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
16423 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
16425 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
16426 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
16430 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16431 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16432 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16433 who select public relays as their bridges.
16435 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16436 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16437 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16438 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16439 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16440 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16442 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16443 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16444 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16445 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16446 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16449 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16450 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
16451 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
16452 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16454 o Minor features (geoip):
16455 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16459 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
16460 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
16461 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
16462 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
16463 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16464 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
16466 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
16467 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16468 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16470 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
16471 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16472 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16473 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16474 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16475 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16477 o Major features (user interface):
16478 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16479 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
16480 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
16482 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
16483 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
16484 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
16485 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16487 o Minor features (config):
16488 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
16489 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
16491 o Minor features (geoip):
16492 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16495 o Minor features (user interface):
16496 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
16497 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
16500 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
16501 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
16502 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16504 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16505 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
16506 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
16508 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
16509 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
16510 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
16511 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16513 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
16514 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16515 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16518 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
16519 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16520 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16521 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16523 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16524 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
16525 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16527 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16528 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
16529 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16531 o Deprecated features:
16532 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
16533 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
16534 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
16535 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
16536 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
16537 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
16538 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
16539 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
16540 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
16541 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
16542 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
16543 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
16544 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
16545 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
16546 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
16547 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
16548 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
16549 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
16550 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
16551 and TransListenAddress.
16554 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16555 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16558 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16559 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
16562 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16563 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16564 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16565 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16566 encouraged to upgrade.
16568 o Directory authority changes:
16569 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16570 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16572 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16573 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16574 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16575 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16576 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16577 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16579 o Minor features (geoip):
16580 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16583 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16584 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16585 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16588 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16589 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16590 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16591 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16594 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
16595 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
16596 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
16597 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
16598 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
16599 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
16600 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
16601 security, correctness, and performance.
16603 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
16605 o New system requirements:
16606 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
16607 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
16608 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
16609 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
16610 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
16611 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
16612 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
16613 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
16615 o Major features (build, hardening):
16616 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
16617 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
16618 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
16619 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
16620 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
16621 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
16622 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
16623 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
16624 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
16626 o Major features (compilation):
16627 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
16628 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
16629 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
16630 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
16632 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
16633 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
16634 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
16636 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
16637 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
16638 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
16639 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
16640 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
16641 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
16642 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
16643 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
16645 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
16646 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
16647 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
16648 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
16649 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
16650 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
16651 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
16653 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
16654 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
16655 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
16656 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
16657 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
16658 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
16659 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16661 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
16662 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
16663 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
16664 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
16665 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
16667 o Minor features (build, hardening):
16668 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
16669 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
16670 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
16671 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
16672 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
16673 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
16674 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
16675 Closes ticket 18895.
16677 o Minor features (code safety):
16678 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
16679 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
16682 o Minor features (controller):
16683 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
16684 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
16685 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
16686 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
16687 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
16688 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
16689 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
16690 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
16692 o Minor features (directory authority):
16693 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
16694 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
16695 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
16696 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
16697 Implements ticket 18624.
16698 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
16699 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
16700 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
16703 o Minor features (hidden service):
16704 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
16705 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
16706 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
16709 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
16710 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
16711 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
16712 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
16713 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
16714 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
16715 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
16716 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
16717 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
16718 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
16719 Closes ticket 18365.
16721 o Minor features (logging):
16722 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
16723 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16724 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
16725 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
16726 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
16727 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
16728 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
16729 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
16730 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
16731 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
16733 o Minor features (performance):
16734 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
16735 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
16736 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
16737 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
16738 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
16739 Closes ticket 18815.
16741 o Minor features (relay, usability):
16742 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
16743 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
16744 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
16745 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
16748 o Minor features (testing):
16749 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
16750 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16751 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
16752 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
16753 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
16754 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
16755 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
16756 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
16759 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16760 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
16761 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
16762 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
16763 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16765 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16766 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
16767 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
16768 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
16769 patch from "cypherpunks".
16771 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
16772 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
16773 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16775 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16776 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
16777 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
16778 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16780 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16781 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
16782 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
16783 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16784 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
16785 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
16786 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
16787 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16789 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
16790 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16791 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16792 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16793 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16794 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16795 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16797 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
16798 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
16799 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
16802 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
16803 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
16804 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
16806 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
16807 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
16808 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
16811 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
16812 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
16813 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
16814 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
16817 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16818 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
16819 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16821 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16822 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
16823 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
16826 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16827 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
16828 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16829 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
16830 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
16831 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
16832 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16833 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
16834 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
16837 o Minor bugfixes (time):
16838 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
16839 bugfix on all released tor versions.
16840 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
16841 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
16842 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
16843 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16845 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16846 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16847 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16848 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16849 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16851 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16852 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16854 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16855 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16857 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16858 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16859 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16860 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16863 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16864 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16866 o Removed features:
16867 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16868 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16869 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16870 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16871 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16872 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
16873 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16876 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16877 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16878 command-line options to enable them.
16879 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16880 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16883 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16885 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16887 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16888 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16889 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16890 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16891 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16892 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16894 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
16896 o Minor features (geoip):
16897 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16900 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16901 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
16902 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16904 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16905 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
16906 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
16907 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
16909 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16910 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
16911 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
16912 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
16913 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16914 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
16915 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
16916 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16919 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
16920 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
16921 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
16922 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
16923 against previous versions.
16925 o Directory authority changes:
16926 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16928 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
16929 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
16930 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
16931 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
16933 o Minor features (build):
16934 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16935 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
16936 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16937 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16938 Patch from intrigeri.
16940 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
16941 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
16942 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
16945 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
16946 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
16947 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
16948 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
16949 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
16952 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16953 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
16954 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
16955 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16956 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
16957 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
16958 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16960 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
16961 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
16962 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
16963 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
16965 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16966 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
16967 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
16968 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
16969 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
16970 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16972 o Fallback directory list:
16973 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
16974 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
16975 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
16976 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
16977 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
16978 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
16979 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
16980 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
16981 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
16984 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
16985 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16986 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
16987 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
16990 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16991 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16992 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16993 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16995 o Minor features (build):
16996 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16997 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
16999 o Minor features (geoip):
17000 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17003 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17004 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
17005 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17007 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
17008 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
17009 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
17010 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
17014 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
17015 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
17016 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
17017 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
17018 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
17021 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
17022 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17023 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17024 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17025 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17027 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
17028 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
17029 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
17030 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
17031 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
17032 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
17034 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
17035 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
17036 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
17037 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17039 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
17040 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
17041 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
17042 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
17043 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
17044 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
17045 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
17047 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
17048 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
17050 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
17051 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
17052 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
17054 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
17055 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
17056 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
17057 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
17058 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
17059 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17062 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
17063 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
17064 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
17067 o Major bugfixes (key management):
17068 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17069 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17070 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17071 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17072 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17073 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17076 o Major bugfixes (testing):
17077 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
17078 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17079 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
17080 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17082 o Minor features (clients):
17083 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
17084 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
17085 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
17087 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
17088 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
17089 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
17090 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
17091 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
17092 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
17093 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
17094 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
17095 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
17096 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
17098 o Minor features (geoip):
17099 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17102 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
17103 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
17104 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
17107 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
17108 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
17109 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17111 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17112 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
17113 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
17115 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
17116 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
17118 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
17119 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
17122 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17123 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
17124 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
17125 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
17126 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17127 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
17128 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
17129 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17131 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
17132 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
17133 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
17134 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
17135 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17137 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
17138 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
17139 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
17140 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17141 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
17142 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
17145 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
17146 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
17147 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
17148 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
17149 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
17150 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17152 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17153 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
17154 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
17155 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17156 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
17157 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17158 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
17159 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17161 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17162 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
17163 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
17164 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17166 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
17167 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
17168 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
17169 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
17170 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
17171 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
17174 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17175 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
17176 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
17178 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
17179 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
17180 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17182 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17183 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
17184 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17186 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17187 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
17188 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
17189 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
17190 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
17191 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
17192 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17194 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
17195 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
17196 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
17197 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17200 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
17201 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
17202 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
17203 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
17206 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
17207 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
17208 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
17209 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
17210 directory support should also be much improved.
17212 o New system requirements:
17213 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
17214 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
17215 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
17216 longer runs with, these versions.
17217 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
17218 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
17219 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
17221 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
17222 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
17223 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
17224 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
17225 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
17227 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
17228 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17229 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17230 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17231 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17233 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
17234 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
17235 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
17236 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
17237 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
17239 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
17240 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
17241 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
17242 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17244 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
17245 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
17246 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17247 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
17248 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17250 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
17251 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
17252 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
17253 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
17254 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
17255 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17258 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
17259 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17260 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17262 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
17263 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
17264 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
17265 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
17268 o Major bugfixes (voting):
17269 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
17270 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
17271 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
17272 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
17274 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
17275 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
17276 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
17277 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17278 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
17279 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
17280 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
17281 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
17282 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
17283 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17285 o Minor features (security, win32):
17286 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
17287 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
17290 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
17291 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17292 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17293 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17295 o Minor features (build):
17296 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
17297 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
17298 Steven Chamberlain.
17300 o Minor features (code hardening):
17301 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
17302 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
17303 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
17306 o Minor features (crypto):
17307 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
17308 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
17311 o Minor features (geoip):
17312 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17315 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
17316 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
17317 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
17318 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
17319 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
17321 o Minor features (IPv6):
17322 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
17323 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
17324 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
17325 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
17326 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
17327 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
17328 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
17330 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17331 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
17332 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
17333 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
17334 while fixing 18548.
17336 o Minor features (robustness):
17337 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
17338 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
17339 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
17341 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
17342 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
17343 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
17344 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
17345 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
17346 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
17347 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
17350 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
17351 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
17352 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
17353 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
17354 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17356 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
17357 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
17358 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
17359 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
17361 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17362 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
17363 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
17365 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
17366 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
17367 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17368 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
17369 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
17370 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
17372 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
17373 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
17374 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
17375 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
17376 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17378 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17379 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
17380 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
17381 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
17384 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17385 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
17386 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17388 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
17389 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
17390 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
17391 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17393 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17394 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
17395 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
17396 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
17397 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
17398 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17400 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
17401 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
17402 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
17403 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
17405 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
17406 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
17407 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
17408 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
17409 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
17411 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
17412 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
17413 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
17414 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
17415 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
17416 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
17417 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
17418 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
17419 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
17422 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
17423 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
17424 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
17425 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17427 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
17428 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
17429 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
17431 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17432 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
17433 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
17434 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17435 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
17436 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
17437 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17438 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
17439 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17441 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17442 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
17443 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
17444 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17445 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
17446 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
17447 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
17448 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
17449 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
17450 Christian, patch by teor.
17452 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
17453 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
17454 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
17455 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
17457 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
17458 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
17459 patch by "cypherpunks".
17460 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
17462 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
17463 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17465 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
17466 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
17467 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
17468 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
17470 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
17471 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
17472 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17475 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17476 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17477 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17478 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17479 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17480 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17482 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
17483 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17484 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17485 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17487 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17488 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17489 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17490 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17492 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17493 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17494 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17495 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17496 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17497 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17498 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
17499 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
17500 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
17503 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
17504 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
17505 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
17507 o Removed features:
17508 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
17509 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
17510 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
17513 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
17515 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
17516 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
17519 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
17520 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
17521 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
17522 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
17523 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
17525 o Major features (security, Linux):
17526 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
17527 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
17528 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
17529 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
17530 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
17532 o Major features (directory system):
17533 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
17534 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
17535 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
17536 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
17537 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
17538 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
17539 "mikeperry" and "teor".
17540 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
17541 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
17542 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
17543 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
17544 15775. Patch by "teor".
17545 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
17546 "gsathya", and "karsten".
17547 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
17548 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
17549 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
17550 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
17551 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
17554 o Major key updates:
17555 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17556 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17559 o Minor features (security, clock):
17560 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
17561 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
17562 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
17563 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
17565 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
17566 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
17567 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
17568 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
17569 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
17570 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17572 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
17573 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
17574 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
17575 Implements ticket 17026.
17576 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
17577 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
17578 Implements feature 17986.
17579 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
17580 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
17581 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
17582 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17583 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17584 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17587 o Minor features (security, RNG):
17588 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
17589 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
17590 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
17591 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
17592 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
17593 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
17594 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
17595 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
17596 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
17597 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
17600 o Minor features (accounting):
17601 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
17602 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
17603 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
17604 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
17606 o Minor features (build):
17607 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
17608 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
17609 patch from "cypherpunks."
17610 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
17611 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
17612 17549, 17921, and 17984.
17614 o Minor features (controller):
17615 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
17616 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
17617 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
17618 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
17619 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
17620 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
17621 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
17622 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
17625 o Minor features (crypto):
17626 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
17628 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
17629 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
17630 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
17631 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
17632 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
17633 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
17634 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
17635 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
17637 o Minor features (directory downloads):
17638 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
17639 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
17640 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
17641 17864; patch by "teor".
17642 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
17643 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
17644 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
17646 o Minor features (geoip):
17647 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17650 o Minor features (IPv6):
17651 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
17652 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
17653 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
17654 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
17655 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
17656 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
17657 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
17658 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
17659 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
17660 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
17661 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
17663 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
17664 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17665 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
17666 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
17668 o Minor features (logging):
17669 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
17670 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
17671 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
17672 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
17675 o Minor features (portability):
17676 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
17677 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
17679 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
17680 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
17681 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
17682 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
17683 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
17685 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
17686 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
17687 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
17688 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
17689 Resolves ticket 17951.
17691 o Minor features (replay cache):
17692 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
17693 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
17695 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
17696 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
17697 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
17698 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
17699 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17700 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
17701 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
17702 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
17703 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
17704 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
17705 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17706 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
17707 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
17708 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17710 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
17711 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
17712 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
17713 from "unixninja92".
17715 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17716 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
17717 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
17718 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17719 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
17720 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
17722 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
17725 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17726 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
17727 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
17728 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17729 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
17730 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
17731 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17732 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
17734 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17735 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17736 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
17737 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
17738 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
17739 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
17740 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17741 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
17743 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
17744 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17746 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
17747 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
17748 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17750 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17751 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
17752 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
17753 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17755 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17756 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
17757 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17759 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17760 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
17761 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17763 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17764 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
17765 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
17766 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
17767 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
17769 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
17770 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17772 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17773 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
17774 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
17777 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17778 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
17779 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
17780 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
17781 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
17782 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
17784 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
17785 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
17786 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
17787 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
17788 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
17790 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
17791 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
17792 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
17795 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
17796 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
17797 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
17798 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17799 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
17800 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
17801 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
17802 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
17805 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17806 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
17807 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
17808 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
17809 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
17810 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17811 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
17812 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
17813 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
17814 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
17816 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
17817 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17819 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17820 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
17821 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
17822 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
17823 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
17824 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
17825 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
17826 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
17827 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
17828 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
17830 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
17831 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
17832 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
17833 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
17835 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
17836 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
17837 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
17838 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
17839 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
17841 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
17842 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
17845 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
17846 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
17847 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
17848 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
17849 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
17850 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
17851 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
17854 o Removed features:
17855 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
17856 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
17857 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
17858 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
17859 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
17862 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
17863 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
17864 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
17865 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
17866 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17867 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
17868 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
17869 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
17870 portion of ticket 16831.
17871 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
17872 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
17873 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
17875 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
17876 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
17879 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
17880 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
17881 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
17883 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17884 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17885 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17886 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17887 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17888 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17891 o Minor features (geoip):
17892 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17895 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17896 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
17897 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
17898 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
17899 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17900 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17902 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17903 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
17904 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
17905 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
17906 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
17907 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
17908 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
17909 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17910 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
17911 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17914 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
17915 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
17916 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
17917 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
17918 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
17919 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
17920 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
17921 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
17922 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
17923 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
17924 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
17925 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
17926 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
17927 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
17928 that would make him proud.
17930 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
17932 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
17933 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
17934 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
17935 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
17936 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
17937 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
17938 of Tor invoke which others.
17940 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
17943 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
17944 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
17945 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
17946 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
17947 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
17948 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
17949 release will the the official stable release.
17951 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17952 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17953 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17954 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17955 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17958 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
17959 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
17960 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17962 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17963 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17964 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17965 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
17966 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17967 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
17968 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
17970 o Minor features (geoIP):
17971 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17974 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17975 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17976 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17977 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
17978 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17979 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17980 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17982 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17983 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
17984 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
17987 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
17988 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17989 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17990 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17992 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17993 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
17994 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
17995 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
17996 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
17997 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
17998 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
17999 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
18000 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
18001 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
18002 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
18006 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
18007 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
18011 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
18012 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
18013 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
18014 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
18015 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
18017 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
18018 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
18019 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
18020 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
18022 o Major features (security, hidden services):
18023 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
18024 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
18025 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
18026 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
18027 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
18028 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
18029 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
18031 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
18032 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
18033 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
18034 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
18035 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
18036 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
18039 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
18040 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
18041 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
18042 available. Implements ticket 16535.
18043 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
18044 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
18047 o Major features (performance testing):
18048 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
18049 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
18050 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
18052 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
18053 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
18054 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
18055 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
18057 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
18058 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
18059 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
18060 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
18061 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
18062 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
18064 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
18065 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
18067 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
18068 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
18069 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
18070 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
18071 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
18073 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
18074 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
18075 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
18076 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
18077 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
18078 own. Implements feature 15482.
18079 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
18080 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
18082 o Minor features (compilation):
18083 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
18084 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
18085 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
18086 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
18087 which started requiring ECC.
18089 o Minor features (geoip):
18090 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18093 o Minor features (hidden services):
18094 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
18095 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
18096 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
18097 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
18098 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
18099 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
18100 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
18101 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
18103 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
18104 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
18105 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
18108 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
18109 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
18110 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
18111 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
18113 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
18114 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
18115 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
18116 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
18117 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
18119 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
18120 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
18121 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
18122 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
18123 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18124 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
18125 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
18126 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
18127 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
18128 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
18129 Related to ticket 16069.
18130 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
18131 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
18132 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
18133 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
18134 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
18135 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18137 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
18138 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
18139 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18140 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
18141 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
18143 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
18144 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
18145 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18147 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
18148 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
18149 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
18150 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18152 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
18153 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
18154 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
18155 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
18156 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18158 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18159 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
18160 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
18161 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
18162 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18163 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
18164 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
18165 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
18166 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
18167 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
18168 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
18171 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
18172 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
18173 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18175 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18176 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
18177 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18178 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
18179 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18181 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
18182 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
18183 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
18184 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
18186 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18187 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
18188 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
18190 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
18191 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18192 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
18193 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
18194 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
18195 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18196 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
18197 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18199 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18200 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
18201 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
18202 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
18203 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
18205 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
18206 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
18209 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18210 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
18211 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
18212 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
18213 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
18214 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
18215 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
18216 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
18217 function. Closes ticket 16763.
18218 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
18219 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
18220 suite of other microdesc functions.
18221 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
18222 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
18223 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
18224 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
18225 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
18226 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
18227 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
18228 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
18229 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
18230 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
18232 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
18233 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
18235 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
18238 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
18239 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
18240 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
18241 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
18245 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
18246 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
18247 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
18248 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
18249 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
18250 Closes ticket 13338.
18251 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
18252 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
18253 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
18254 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
18255 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
18256 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
18259 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
18260 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
18261 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
18262 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
18263 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
18264 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
18265 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
18267 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
18268 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
18269 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
18270 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
18271 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
18272 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
18273 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
18274 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
18275 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
18276 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
18277 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
18278 network before we begin.
18279 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
18280 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
18281 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
18282 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
18283 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
18284 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
18285 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
18286 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
18289 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
18290 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
18291 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
18292 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
18293 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
18294 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
18296 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
18297 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
18298 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
18300 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
18301 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
18302 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
18303 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
18304 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
18305 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
18306 Implements part of ticket 12498.
18307 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
18308 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
18309 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
18310 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
18311 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
18312 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
18313 part of ticket 12498.
18314 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
18315 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
18316 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
18317 key). Closes ticket 13642.
18319 o Major features (Hidden services):
18320 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
18321 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
18322 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
18323 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
18324 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
18326 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
18327 introduction points, which used to change the number of
18328 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
18329 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
18331 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
18332 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
18333 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
18334 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
18335 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
18336 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
18338 o Major features (performance):
18339 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
18340 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
18341 Implements ticket 16467.
18342 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
18343 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
18344 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
18345 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
18347 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
18348 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
18349 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
18350 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
18351 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
18352 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
18354 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
18355 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
18356 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
18357 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
18358 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
18359 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
18360 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
18361 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
18364 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18365 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
18366 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
18367 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
18368 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
18369 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
18370 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
18373 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
18374 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
18375 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
18376 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
18377 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
18378 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
18380 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
18381 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
18382 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
18383 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
18384 by "cypherpunks_backup".
18385 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
18386 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
18387 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
18390 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
18391 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
18392 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
18393 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
18394 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
18395 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
18396 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18398 o Minor features (client):
18399 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
18400 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
18401 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
18403 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
18404 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
18405 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
18406 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18407 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
18408 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
18409 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
18412 o Minor features (control protocol):
18413 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
18414 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
18416 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18417 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
18418 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
18419 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
18420 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
18421 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
18423 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
18424 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18425 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18427 o Minor features (hidden services):
18428 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
18429 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
18430 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
18431 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
18434 o Minor features (portability):
18435 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
18436 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
18437 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
18439 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
18440 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18441 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18442 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18444 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18445 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
18446 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
18447 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18449 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
18450 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
18451 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
18452 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
18453 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
18454 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
18456 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18457 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
18458 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
18459 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18460 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
18461 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
18462 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18464 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18465 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
18466 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18468 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
18469 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
18470 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
18471 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
18473 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
18474 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
18475 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
18476 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
18478 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18479 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18482 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18483 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
18484 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18485 from "cypherpunks".
18487 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
18488 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
18489 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18490 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
18491 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
18492 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
18494 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18495 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
18496 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18498 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
18499 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18500 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18502 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
18503 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
18504 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18505 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
18506 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18507 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
18508 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
18509 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
18510 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18512 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18513 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
18514 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
18515 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
18516 haven't supported that in ages.
18517 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
18518 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
18519 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
18520 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
18523 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
18524 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
18525 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
18526 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
18527 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
18528 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
18530 o Removed features:
18531 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
18532 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
18533 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
18534 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
18535 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
18536 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
18537 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
18538 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
18539 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
18540 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
18541 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
18542 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
18543 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
18544 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
18545 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
18546 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
18547 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
18550 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
18551 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
18552 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
18553 Closes ticket 15817.
18554 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
18555 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
18557 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
18558 default as a part of "make check".
18559 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
18560 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
18561 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
18562 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
18566 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
18567 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
18568 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
18569 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
18570 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
18571 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
18573 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
18574 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
18575 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
18576 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
18577 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
18578 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
18579 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
18580 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
18583 o Major bugfixes (stability):
18584 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
18585 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
18586 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
18587 by "cypherpunks_backup".
18588 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
18589 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
18590 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
18593 o Minor features (geoip):
18594 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18595 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18597 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
18598 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
18599 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
18600 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
18601 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
18602 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
18604 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18605 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
18606 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
18607 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
18610 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
18611 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
18612 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
18613 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
18614 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
18616 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
18617 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
18618 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
18619 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
18620 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18623 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
18624 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
18625 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
18626 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
18627 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
18628 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
18629 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18631 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18632 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18633 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18634 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18636 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18637 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
18638 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
18639 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
18640 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18641 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18644 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18645 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18646 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18649 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
18650 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
18651 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
18652 authorities should upgrade.
18654 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18655 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18656 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18657 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18660 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18661 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18662 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18665 o Minor features (geoip):
18666 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18667 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18671 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
18672 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
18673 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
18674 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
18675 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
18676 the hidden services subsystem.
18678 o New system requirements:
18679 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
18680 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
18683 o Major features (controller):
18684 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
18685 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
18687 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
18688 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
18689 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
18690 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
18691 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
18692 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
18693 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
18695 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18696 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18697 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18698 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18701 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
18702 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
18703 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
18704 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
18705 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
18707 o Minor features (command-line interface):
18708 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
18709 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18710 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
18711 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
18713 o Minor features (controller):
18714 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
18715 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
18716 present. Implements ticket 14840.
18717 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
18718 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
18719 Closes ticket 14845.
18720 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
18721 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
18722 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
18724 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
18725 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
18726 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
18727 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
18729 o Minor features (geoip):
18730 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18731 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18734 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
18735 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
18736 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
18737 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
18738 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
18739 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
18740 Closes ticket 15745.
18742 o Minor features (logging):
18743 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
18744 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
18747 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
18748 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
18749 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
18750 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
18752 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
18753 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
18754 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
18755 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
18756 Resolves ticket 15435.
18758 o Minor features (testing):
18759 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
18760 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
18761 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
18762 files. Closes ticket 15180.
18763 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
18764 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
18765 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
18766 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
18767 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
18768 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
18769 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
18770 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
18771 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
18772 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
18773 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
18774 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
18776 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18777 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
18778 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
18781 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
18782 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
18783 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
18785 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
18786 stderr, not stdout.
18788 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
18789 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
18790 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
18791 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
18792 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
18793 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
18794 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
18795 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18797 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
18798 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
18799 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
18801 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
18802 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
18803 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
18806 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18807 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18808 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18810 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
18811 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18813 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
18814 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
18815 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
18816 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
18819 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
18820 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
18821 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
18822 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
18823 recent enough Clang.
18825 o Minor bugfixes (network):
18826 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
18827 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
18828 unsuitable for public communications.
18830 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18831 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
18832 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
18833 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
18834 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
18835 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
18837 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
18838 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
18839 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
18840 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
18841 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
18842 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
18843 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
18844 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
18846 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18847 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
18848 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
18850 - Set the severity correctly when testing
18851 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
18852 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
18853 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
18854 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
18856 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18857 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
18858 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
18860 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
18861 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
18862 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
18863 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
18864 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
18867 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
18868 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
18870 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
18871 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18872 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
18873 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
18874 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
18877 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
18878 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
18879 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
18880 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
18881 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
18882 Closes ticket 14922.
18884 o Removed features:
18885 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
18886 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
18887 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
18888 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
18889 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
18890 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
18891 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
18892 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
18893 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
18894 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
18895 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
18898 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
18899 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18900 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18901 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18902 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18904 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18905 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18907 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18908 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18909 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18910 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18911 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18912 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18913 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18915 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18916 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18917 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18918 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18919 Resolves ticket 15515.
18922 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
18923 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18924 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18925 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18926 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18928 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18929 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18931 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18932 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18933 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18934 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18935 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18936 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18937 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18939 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18940 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18941 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18942 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18943 Resolves ticket 15515.
18946 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
18947 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
18948 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
18949 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
18950 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18952 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
18953 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18955 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18956 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18957 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18958 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18959 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18960 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18961 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18963 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18964 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18965 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18966 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18967 Resolves ticket 15515.
18968 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
18969 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
18970 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
18974 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
18975 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
18977 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
18978 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
18979 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
18980 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
18981 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
18982 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
18983 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
18984 bugs should be addressed.
18986 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18987 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18988 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18989 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18991 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
18992 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
18993 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
18995 o Major bugfixes (client):
18996 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
18997 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
19000 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19001 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
19002 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
19003 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
19004 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
19005 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19007 o Major bugfixes (portability):
19008 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
19009 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
19012 o Minor features (heartbeat):
19013 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
19014 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
19015 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
19016 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
19018 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19019 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
19020 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
19023 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19024 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19026 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19027 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19028 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19030 o Directory authority changes:
19031 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19032 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19033 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19034 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19035 closes ticket 14487.
19037 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19038 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19039 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19042 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19043 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19044 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19045 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19046 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19047 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19048 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19049 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19051 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19052 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19053 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19054 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19056 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19057 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19058 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19059 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19061 o Minor features (controller):
19062 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19063 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19064 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19066 o Minor features (geoip):
19067 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19068 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19071 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19072 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19073 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19074 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19075 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19076 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19078 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19079 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19080 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19081 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19083 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19084 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19085 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19086 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19087 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19088 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19089 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19090 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19092 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19093 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19094 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19096 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19097 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19098 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19099 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19100 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19104 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
19105 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
19106 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
19109 o Directory authority changes:
19110 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19111 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19112 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19113 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19114 closes ticket 14487.
19116 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
19117 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19118 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19119 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19121 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
19122 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19123 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19124 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19125 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19126 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19127 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19128 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19130 o Minor features (geoip):
19131 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19132 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19135 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
19136 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
19137 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
19138 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
19139 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
19141 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19142 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19143 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19146 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19147 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19148 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
19149 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19150 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19151 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19152 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19153 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19155 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
19156 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
19157 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
19160 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19161 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
19162 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
19164 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
19165 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19166 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19167 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19168 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19170 o Minor features (controller):
19171 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
19172 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
19173 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
19175 o Minor features (geoip):
19176 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19177 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19180 o Minor features (logs):
19181 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
19184 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
19185 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
19186 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
19187 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19188 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
19189 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
19190 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
19191 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
19192 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
19194 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19195 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
19197 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
19200 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19201 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
19202 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
19204 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
19205 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
19206 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
19207 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
19208 from "cypherpunks".
19209 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
19210 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
19213 o Directory authority IP change:
19214 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19215 closes ticket 14487.
19218 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
19219 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
19220 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
19224 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
19225 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
19226 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
19227 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
19228 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
19229 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
19231 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
19232 the next version will be a release candidate.
19234 o Deprecated versions:
19235 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
19236 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
19238 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
19239 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
19240 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
19241 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
19242 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
19243 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
19245 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
19246 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
19247 Implements ticket 11485.
19249 o Major features (changed defaults):
19250 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
19251 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
19252 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
19253 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
19254 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
19255 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
19257 o Major features (directory system):
19258 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
19259 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
19260 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
19261 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
19262 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
19263 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
19264 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
19265 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
19266 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
19267 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
19268 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
19269 227. Closes ticket 10395.
19271 o Major features (guards):
19272 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
19273 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
19274 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
19275 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
19276 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
19278 o Major features (performance):
19279 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
19280 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
19281 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
19282 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
19283 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
19284 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
19285 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
19286 Implements ticket 9682.
19288 o Major features (relay):
19289 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
19290 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
19291 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
19293 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19294 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19295 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19296 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19298 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
19299 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
19300 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
19301 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
19302 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
19303 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
19304 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
19306 o Minor features (build):
19307 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
19308 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
19309 Resolves ticket 13037.
19311 o Minor features (controller):
19312 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
19313 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
19315 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
19316 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
19317 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
19318 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19319 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19320 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19322 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
19323 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
19324 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
19325 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
19326 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
19327 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
19328 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
19329 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
19330 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
19331 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
19333 o Minor features (geoip):
19334 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
19335 GeoLite2 Country database.
19337 o Minor features (guard nodes):
19338 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
19339 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
19340 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
19342 o Minor features (hidden service):
19343 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
19344 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
19345 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
19346 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
19347 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
19348 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
19349 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
19350 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
19352 o Minor features (interface):
19353 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
19354 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
19355 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
19357 o Minor features (logging):
19358 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
19359 Resolves ticket 6852.
19360 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
19361 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
19362 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
19364 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
19365 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
19367 o Minor features (stability):
19368 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
19369 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
19372 o Minor features (systemd):
19373 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
19374 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
19376 o Minor features (testing networks):
19377 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
19378 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
19379 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
19380 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
19381 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
19382 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
19384 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
19385 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
19386 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
19387 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
19388 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
19390 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
19391 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
19392 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
19393 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
19394 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
19396 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
19397 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
19398 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
19399 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19400 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
19401 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
19402 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
19403 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19405 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19406 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19407 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19408 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19409 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19410 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19411 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
19412 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
19414 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
19415 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
19416 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
19419 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
19420 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
19421 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
19422 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
19423 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
19425 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
19426 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
19427 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
19428 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
19429 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19431 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19432 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
19433 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
19434 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
19435 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
19436 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
19437 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
19438 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
19439 Addresses ticket 14188.
19440 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19441 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19442 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19443 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
19444 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
19445 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
19446 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
19447 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
19448 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19450 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19451 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
19452 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
19453 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
19454 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
19455 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19456 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
19457 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19459 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19460 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19461 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19462 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19463 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19464 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
19465 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
19466 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19467 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
19468 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19469 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19470 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19471 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19473 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
19474 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
19475 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
19476 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
19477 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
19478 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19479 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
19480 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
19481 state, and key files.
19482 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
19483 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
19486 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19487 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
19488 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
19489 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
19490 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19491 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
19492 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
19493 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19494 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
19495 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
19496 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19498 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19499 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
19500 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19501 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
19503 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
19504 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
19506 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
19507 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
19508 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
19509 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
19510 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
19511 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19513 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
19514 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
19515 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
19516 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19517 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
19518 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
19519 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19520 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
19521 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
19522 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19524 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19525 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
19526 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
19528 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
19529 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
19531 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
19532 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
19533 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
19534 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
19535 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19537 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
19538 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
19539 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
19540 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
19543 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
19544 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
19545 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
19548 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19549 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19550 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19552 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
19553 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
19554 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
19555 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
19556 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
19557 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
19558 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
19560 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
19561 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
19564 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
19565 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
19566 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
19568 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
19569 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
19570 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
19573 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19574 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
19575 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
19576 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
19577 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
19578 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
19579 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
19580 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
19581 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
19583 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
19584 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
19586 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
19590 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
19591 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
19592 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
19593 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19594 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
19595 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19597 o Downgraded warnings:
19598 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
19599 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
19601 o Removed features:
19602 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
19603 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
19604 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
19605 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
19606 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
19610 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
19611 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19612 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
19613 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
19614 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
19615 (existing behavior).
19616 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
19617 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
19618 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
19619 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
19620 Closes ticket 14107.
19621 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
19622 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19623 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
19624 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
19626 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
19627 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
19628 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19631 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
19632 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
19633 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
19634 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
19635 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
19636 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
19638 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
19639 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
19640 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
19641 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
19643 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
19644 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
19645 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
19646 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
19647 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
19648 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
19650 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
19651 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
19652 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
19653 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
19654 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
19655 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
19656 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
19659 o Major features (hidden services):
19660 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
19661 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
19662 Closes ticket 13667.
19663 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
19664 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
19665 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
19666 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
19667 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
19668 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
19669 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
19670 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
19671 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
19672 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
19673 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
19675 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
19676 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
19677 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
19678 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
19679 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
19680 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
19683 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19684 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
19685 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
19686 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
19687 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
19688 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
19690 o Directory authority changes:
19691 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19692 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19693 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19695 o Major removed features:
19696 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
19697 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
19698 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
19699 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
19701 o Minor features (client):
19702 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
19703 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
19704 Resolves ticket 13315.
19706 o Minor features (controller):
19707 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
19708 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
19711 o Minor features (geoip):
19712 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19715 o Minor features (hidden services):
19716 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
19717 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
19718 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
19719 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
19720 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
19721 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
19723 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
19724 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
19725 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
19727 o Minor features (systemd):
19728 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
19729 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
19730 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
19731 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
19733 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
19734 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
19735 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
19736 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
19737 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
19740 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19741 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19742 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19743 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19744 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19746 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
19747 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
19748 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
19751 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
19752 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
19753 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
19754 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
19755 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
19757 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
19758 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
19759 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19761 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19762 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
19763 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
19764 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
19765 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
19767 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
19768 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
19771 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19772 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
19773 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
19774 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
19775 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
19776 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19777 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
19778 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
19779 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
19780 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
19781 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
19782 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
19783 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
19784 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
19787 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19788 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
19789 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
19790 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
19791 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
19792 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
19794 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19795 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
19796 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
19797 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
19799 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
19800 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19802 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
19803 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
19804 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
19805 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
19808 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
19809 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
19810 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
19811 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
19812 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
19813 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
19815 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
19816 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
19817 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
19818 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
19819 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19820 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
19821 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
19822 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
19823 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
19824 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
19825 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
19826 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
19827 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
19828 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
19829 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
19830 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
19831 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
19832 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
19833 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
19834 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19835 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
19836 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
19837 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
19838 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
19839 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
19840 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
19841 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
19842 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19843 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
19844 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
19845 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
19846 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
19848 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
19849 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
19850 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
19851 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
19852 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19854 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19855 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
19856 with a function instead.
19857 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
19858 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
19859 Closes ticket 13172.
19860 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
19861 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
19862 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
19863 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
19864 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
19865 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
19866 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
19867 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
19868 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
19869 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
19870 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
19871 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
19875 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
19876 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
19877 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
19878 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
19879 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
19880 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
19881 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
19882 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
19883 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
19884 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
19885 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
19886 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
19889 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
19890 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
19891 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
19892 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
19893 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
19894 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
19896 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
19900 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
19901 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
19902 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
19903 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
19904 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
19905 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
19906 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
19907 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
19908 of introducing infinite download loops.
19910 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
19911 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
19912 with 0.2.5.x for now.
19914 o New compiler and system requirements:
19915 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
19916 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
19917 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
19918 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
19920 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
19921 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
19922 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
19923 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
19924 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
19925 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
19926 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
19927 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
19928 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
19930 o Removed platform support:
19931 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
19932 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
19933 Closes ticket 11446.
19935 o Major features (bridges):
19936 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
19937 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
19938 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
19941 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
19942 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
19943 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
19944 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
19947 o Major features (directory system):
19948 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
19949 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
19950 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
19951 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
19953 o Major features (sample torrc):
19954 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
19955 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
19956 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
19957 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
19958 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
19959 generally useful "sample torrc".
19961 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
19962 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
19963 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19965 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
19966 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
19967 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
19968 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
19969 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19971 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
19972 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
19973 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
19974 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
19976 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
19977 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
19978 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
19979 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
19980 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
19981 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
19984 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
19985 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
19986 document. Implements feature 10427.
19988 o Minor features (client):
19989 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
19990 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
19991 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
19992 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
19994 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19995 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
19996 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
19997 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
19998 argument more than once.
19999 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
20000 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
20001 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
20002 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
20003 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
20004 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
20006 o Minor features (logging):
20007 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
20008 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
20009 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
20010 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
20011 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
20012 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
20013 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
20014 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
20015 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
20017 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
20018 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
20019 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
20020 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
20022 o Minor features (relay):
20023 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
20024 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
20025 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
20027 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
20028 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
20029 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
20030 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
20032 o Minor features (testing networks):
20033 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
20034 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
20035 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
20036 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
20037 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
20040 o Minor features (validation):
20041 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
20042 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
20043 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
20044 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
20045 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
20046 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
20047 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
20048 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
20050 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
20051 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
20052 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
20053 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20055 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
20056 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
20057 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
20058 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20060 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
20061 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
20062 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
20064 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
20065 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
20066 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
20068 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
20069 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20070 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
20071 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
20072 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
20073 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
20074 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
20076 o Minor bugfixes (client):
20077 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
20078 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
20079 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20080 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
20081 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20082 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
20083 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
20084 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
20086 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
20087 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
20088 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
20089 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
20090 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
20092 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
20093 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
20094 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
20096 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20097 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
20098 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
20099 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
20100 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
20102 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
20103 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
20104 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
20105 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20106 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
20107 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
20108 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20109 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
20110 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
20111 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
20112 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
20115 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
20116 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
20117 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
20118 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
20119 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20121 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20122 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
20123 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20124 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
20125 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
20128 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
20129 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
20130 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20131 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
20132 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
20133 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20135 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20136 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
20137 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
20138 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20140 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
20141 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
20142 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
20143 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20145 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
20146 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
20147 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
20148 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
20151 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
20152 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
20153 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20156 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
20157 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20158 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
20159 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
20160 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
20163 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20164 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
20165 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
20167 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
20168 Resolves ticket 12205.
20169 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
20170 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
20171 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
20172 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
20174 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
20175 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
20176 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
20178 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
20179 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
20181 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
20182 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
20183 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
20184 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
20185 or_options_t structure.
20188 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
20189 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
20190 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
20191 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
20194 o Removed features:
20195 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
20196 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
20197 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
20198 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
20199 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
20200 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
20201 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
20202 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
20203 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
20205 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
20206 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
20208 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
20209 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
20210 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
20211 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
20212 anymore, and ignore it.
20215 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
20216 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
20217 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
20218 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
20219 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
20220 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
20221 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
20222 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
20223 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
20224 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
20225 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
20226 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
20228 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
20229 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
20230 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
20232 o Distribution (systemd):
20233 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
20234 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
20235 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
20236 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
20237 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20239 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
20240 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
20242 o Removed features (directory authorities):
20243 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
20244 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
20245 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
20246 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
20247 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
20248 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
20249 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
20250 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
20251 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
20253 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
20254 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
20255 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
20256 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
20259 o Testing (test-network.sh):
20260 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
20261 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
20263 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
20265 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
20266 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
20267 Partially implements ticket 13161.
20270 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
20271 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
20273 It adds several new security features, including improved
20274 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
20275 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
20276 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
20277 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
20278 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
20279 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
20280 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
20281 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
20282 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
20283 and features mentioned below.
20285 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
20286 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
20288 o Deprecated versions:
20289 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
20290 attention for some while.
20293 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
20294 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
20295 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20296 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20297 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20298 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
20300 o Major security fixes:
20301 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20302 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20303 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20305 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
20306 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20307 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20308 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20311 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
20312 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
20313 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
20314 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20316 o Compilation fixes:
20317 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
20318 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
20319 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
20321 o Downgraded warnings:
20322 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
20323 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
20326 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
20327 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20328 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20329 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20330 (which does affect Tor).
20332 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20333 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20334 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20335 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20337 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20338 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20339 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20340 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20343 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
20344 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
20345 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20346 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20347 the directory authorities.
20350 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20351 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20352 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20353 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20354 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20355 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20356 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20357 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20358 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20359 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20360 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20361 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20363 o Directory authority changes:
20364 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20367 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
20368 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20369 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20370 the directory authorities.
20373 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20374 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20375 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20376 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20377 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20378 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20379 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20380 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20381 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20382 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20383 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20384 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20386 o Directory authority changes:
20387 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20389 o Minor features (geoip):
20390 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20394 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
20395 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
20396 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
20397 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
20398 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
20400 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
20401 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
20402 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
20403 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
20404 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
20405 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
20406 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20407 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
20408 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
20409 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
20410 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
20411 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
20412 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
20413 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20414 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
20415 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
20417 o Major bugfixes (relay):
20418 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
20419 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20420 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20421 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
20422 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
20423 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
20424 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20426 o Minor features (bridge):
20427 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
20428 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
20430 o Minor features (geoip):
20431 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20434 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20435 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
20436 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
20437 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
20438 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
20439 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
20440 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20441 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
20442 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
20443 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
20444 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
20445 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
20446 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
20447 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
20448 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
20450 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
20451 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
20452 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
20453 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
20454 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
20456 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20457 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
20458 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20459 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
20460 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
20463 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20464 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
20465 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
20466 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
20467 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
20468 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
20469 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
20470 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20471 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
20472 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
20473 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
20476 o Distribution (systemd):
20477 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20478 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20479 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20480 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20481 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20482 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20483 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20484 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20485 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20489 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
20490 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
20492 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
20496 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
20497 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
20498 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
20499 us closer to a release candidate.
20501 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
20502 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20503 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20504 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20505 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20507 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
20508 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20509 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20510 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20511 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20512 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20513 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20514 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20515 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20519 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
20520 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
20521 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
20522 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
20523 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
20524 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
20525 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
20526 to build circuits".
20529 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
20530 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
20531 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
20532 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
20533 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
20534 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
20535 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
20536 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20538 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
20540 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
20541 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20542 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20543 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20544 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20545 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20546 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20547 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20548 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20549 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20552 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
20553 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
20554 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
20555 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
20557 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
20558 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
20559 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
20562 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
20563 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
20564 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
20565 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
20568 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
20569 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
20570 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
20571 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
20572 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
20573 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
20574 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20575 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20576 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20577 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20580 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20581 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20582 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20583 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20584 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20585 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20586 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20587 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20591 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20592 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20593 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20594 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20595 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20596 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20597 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20598 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20599 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20600 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
20601 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
20602 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
20603 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
20606 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20610 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
20611 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
20612 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
20613 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
20614 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
20615 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
20618 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
20619 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
20620 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
20621 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
20622 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
20623 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
20624 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
20625 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
20626 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
20627 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
20628 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
20629 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
20630 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20632 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
20633 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20634 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20635 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20638 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
20639 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
20640 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
20642 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
20643 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
20644 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
20645 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
20646 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
20647 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
20648 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
20649 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
20650 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
20651 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
20652 router's identity is not forgeable.
20654 o Major bugfixes (relay):
20655 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
20656 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
20657 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
20658 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
20659 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
20660 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
20661 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
20662 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
20663 bugfix on every version of Tor.
20665 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
20666 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
20667 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
20668 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
20671 o Minor features (diagnostic):
20672 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
20673 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
20674 help diagnose bug 7164.
20675 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
20676 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
20677 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
20678 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
20679 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
20681 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
20682 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
20683 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
20684 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
20685 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
20686 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
20687 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
20689 o Minor features (security, memory management):
20690 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
20691 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
20692 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
20693 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
20694 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
20695 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
20697 o Minor features (security):
20698 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
20699 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
20700 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
20701 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
20703 o Minor features (build):
20704 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
20705 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
20706 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
20708 o Minor features (other):
20709 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20712 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
20713 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
20714 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
20715 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20716 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20718 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
20719 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
20720 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
20721 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
20722 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
20723 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
20724 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
20725 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
20726 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20727 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
20728 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
20729 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
20731 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20732 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
20733 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20734 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
20735 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
20736 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
20737 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
20738 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
20739 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
20740 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
20741 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20742 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
20743 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
20744 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
20745 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
20746 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
20747 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
20748 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
20751 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
20752 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
20753 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
20754 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
20755 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
20756 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
20757 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20759 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
20760 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
20761 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20762 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
20763 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20764 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
20765 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20766 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
20767 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
20769 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
20770 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
20772 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
20773 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
20775 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
20776 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
20777 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20778 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
20779 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
20780 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20781 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
20782 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
20783 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
20785 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
20786 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
20787 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
20788 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
20789 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
20790 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20791 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
20792 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
20793 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20794 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
20795 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
20796 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20797 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
20798 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
20799 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
20800 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
20801 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
20802 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20804 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20805 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
20806 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
20807 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
20808 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
20809 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20810 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
20811 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
20812 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
20815 o Minor bugfixes (client):
20816 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
20817 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
20818 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
20819 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20821 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20822 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
20823 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
20824 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
20826 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
20827 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
20828 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
20829 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20830 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
20831 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
20832 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
20833 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
20835 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
20836 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
20837 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
20838 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
20841 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
20842 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
20843 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
20844 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
20845 versions. Found by "skruffy".
20846 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
20847 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
20848 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
20851 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
20852 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
20853 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
20854 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
20857 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
20858 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
20859 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
20860 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
20862 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
20863 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
20864 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
20866 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
20867 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
20868 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20870 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20871 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
20872 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20873 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
20874 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
20878 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
20879 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
20880 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
20881 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
20884 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
20885 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
20886 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
20887 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
20889 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
20890 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
20892 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
20893 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
20894 caches don't get confused.
20897 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
20898 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
20899 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
20900 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
20901 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
20904 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
20905 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
20906 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
20907 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
20908 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
20909 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
20913 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
20914 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
20915 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
20916 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
20917 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
20918 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
20919 of RAM, and several others.
20921 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20922 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20923 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20924 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20925 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20927 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
20928 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20929 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20930 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20933 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20934 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20935 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20936 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20937 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20938 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20939 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20940 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20941 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20942 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20943 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20944 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20945 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20946 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20947 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20948 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20949 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20950 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20951 Resolves ticket 11438.
20953 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
20954 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
20955 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
20956 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
20957 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20958 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20960 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20961 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20962 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20964 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20965 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20966 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20968 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20969 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20970 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20971 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20973 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20974 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20975 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20977 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20978 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
20979 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20982 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
20983 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
20984 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
20985 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
20988 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20989 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20990 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20991 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20993 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20994 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
20995 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
20996 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20998 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20999 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
21000 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
21004 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
21005 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
21006 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
21007 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
21008 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
21009 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
21010 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
21011 the Linux sandbox code.
21013 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
21014 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
21015 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
21017 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
21018 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
21020 o Major features (security):
21021 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
21022 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
21023 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
21024 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
21025 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
21026 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
21027 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
21028 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
21030 o Major features (relay performance):
21031 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
21032 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
21033 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
21034 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
21035 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
21036 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
21037 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
21038 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
21039 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
21040 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
21042 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
21043 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
21044 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
21045 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
21046 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
21047 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
21048 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
21050 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
21051 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
21053 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
21054 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
21055 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
21056 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
21057 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
21058 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
21059 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21060 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
21061 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
21062 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
21063 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
21064 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
21065 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
21066 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
21067 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
21068 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
21069 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
21070 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
21071 Resolves ticket 11438.
21073 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
21074 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
21075 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
21076 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21078 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
21079 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
21080 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
21081 10267; patch from "yurivict".
21082 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
21083 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
21084 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
21085 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
21086 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
21087 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
21089 o Minor features (security):
21090 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
21091 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
21092 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
21093 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
21096 o Minor features (log verbosity):
21097 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
21098 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
21099 Resolves ticket 5286.
21100 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
21101 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
21102 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
21103 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
21104 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
21105 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
21106 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
21107 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
21108 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
21110 o Minor features (relay):
21111 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
21112 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
21113 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
21115 o Minor features (controller):
21116 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
21117 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
21119 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
21120 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
21121 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
21123 o Minor features (bridge client):
21124 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
21125 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
21126 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
21128 o Minor features (diagnostic):
21129 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
21130 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
21131 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
21132 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
21133 still referenced by a live node_t object.
21135 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
21136 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
21137 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
21138 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
21140 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
21141 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
21142 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
21143 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
21146 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
21147 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
21148 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21150 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
21151 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
21152 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
21153 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21154 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
21155 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
21156 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21158 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
21159 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
21160 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
21161 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21162 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
21163 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
21164 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21165 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
21166 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
21167 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
21168 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21169 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
21170 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
21173 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
21174 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
21175 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
21176 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
21177 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
21179 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
21180 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
21181 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
21184 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21185 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
21186 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21188 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
21189 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
21190 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21192 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21193 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
21194 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
21195 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21197 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
21198 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
21199 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21200 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
21201 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
21203 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
21204 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
21205 early. Fixes bug 10081.
21207 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
21208 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
21209 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21210 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
21211 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21212 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
21213 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
21214 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
21216 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
21217 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
21218 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
21219 should never have affected anyone in practice.
21221 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
21222 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
21223 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21225 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
21226 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
21227 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
21228 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
21229 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
21230 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
21231 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
21232 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
21233 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
21234 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
21235 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
21236 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
21237 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
21238 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
21240 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
21241 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
21242 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
21243 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
21244 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
21245 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
21246 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
21247 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
21251 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
21252 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
21253 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
21254 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21255 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
21256 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21257 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
21258 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
21260 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
21262 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21263 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
21264 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
21265 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
21266 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
21269 o Deprecated versions:
21270 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
21271 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
21272 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
21273 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
21276 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
21277 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
21278 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
21279 Patch from Dana Koch.
21282 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
21283 Resolves ticket 11070.
21286 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
21287 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
21288 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
21289 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
21290 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
21293 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
21294 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
21296 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
21297 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
21298 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
21299 streams attached to each circuit.
21301 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
21302 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
21303 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
21304 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
21305 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
21306 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
21307 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
21308 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
21309 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
21310 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
21311 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
21312 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
21313 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
21315 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
21316 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
21317 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
21319 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
21320 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
21321 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
21322 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
21323 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
21324 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
21325 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
21326 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
21327 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
21329 o Minor features (other):
21330 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
21331 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
21332 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
21333 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
21334 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
21335 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
21336 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
21337 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
21338 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21341 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
21342 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
21343 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
21344 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
21345 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
21346 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
21347 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
21348 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
21350 o Minor bugfixes (client):
21351 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
21352 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
21353 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
21354 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21355 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
21356 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
21357 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
21359 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
21360 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
21361 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
21362 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
21363 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
21364 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21365 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
21366 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
21367 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21368 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
21369 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
21370 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21372 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
21373 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
21374 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
21375 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
21376 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
21377 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
21378 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
21379 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
21380 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21381 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
21382 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
21383 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
21384 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
21385 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
21387 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
21388 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
21390 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
21391 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
21392 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
21393 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
21394 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
21395 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
21396 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21397 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
21398 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
21399 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
21400 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
21401 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21402 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
21403 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
21405 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
21406 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
21407 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
21408 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
21411 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
21412 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
21413 the rest of bug 10841.
21416 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
21417 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
21418 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
21419 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
21420 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
21421 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
21422 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
21423 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
21424 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
21425 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
21426 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
21427 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21428 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
21429 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
21430 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21432 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21433 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
21434 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
21436 o Test infrastructure:
21437 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
21438 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
21439 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
21440 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
21443 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
21444 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
21445 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
21446 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
21448 o Major features (client security):
21449 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
21450 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
21451 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
21452 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
21453 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
21454 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
21457 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
21458 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
21459 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
21460 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21462 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21463 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
21464 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
21465 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
21466 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
21469 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
21470 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
21472 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
21473 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
21474 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
21475 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
21476 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
21477 GeoLite2 Country database.
21480 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
21481 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
21482 bugfix on every released Tor.
21483 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
21484 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
21485 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
21486 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21487 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
21488 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
21489 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
21490 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
21491 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
21492 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21493 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
21494 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
21495 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21496 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
21497 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21499 o Documentation fixes:
21500 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
21501 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21504 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
21505 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
21506 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
21507 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
21508 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
21509 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
21510 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
21511 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
21513 o Major features (client security):
21514 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
21515 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
21516 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
21517 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
21518 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
21519 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
21520 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
21521 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
21522 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
21523 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
21524 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
21525 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
21527 o Major features (bridges):
21528 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
21529 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
21530 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
21531 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
21532 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
21533 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
21534 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
21535 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
21538 o Major features (other):
21539 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
21540 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
21541 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
21542 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
21543 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
21544 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
21545 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
21546 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
21547 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
21548 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
21549 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
21550 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
21553 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
21554 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
21555 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21556 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
21557 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
21558 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
21559 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21561 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
21562 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
21563 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
21564 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
21565 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
21566 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
21567 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
21568 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
21569 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
21571 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
21572 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21573 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
21574 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
21575 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
21576 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
21578 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21579 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
21580 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
21581 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
21582 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
21583 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
21586 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
21587 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
21588 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
21589 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
21590 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
21591 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
21592 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
21594 o Minor features (security):
21595 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
21596 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
21599 o Minor features (config options and command line):
21600 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
21601 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
21602 Implements ticket 10060.
21603 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
21604 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
21605 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
21607 o Minor features (controller):
21608 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
21609 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
21610 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
21611 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
21612 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
21615 o Minor features (build):
21616 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
21617 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
21618 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
21619 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
21620 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
21621 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
21622 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
21624 o Minor features (testing):
21625 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
21626 the unit test scripts.
21627 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
21628 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
21629 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
21630 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
21632 o Minor features (log messages):
21633 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
21634 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
21635 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
21636 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
21637 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
21638 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
21639 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
21640 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
21641 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
21642 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21644 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21645 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
21646 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
21647 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
21648 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
21649 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
21650 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
21651 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
21652 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
21653 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21655 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21656 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
21657 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
21658 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
21661 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21662 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
21663 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
21664 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
21665 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21667 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21668 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
21669 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
21670 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
21671 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
21672 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
21673 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
21675 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
21676 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
21677 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
21678 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
21679 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
21680 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
21681 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21682 Reported by "mr-4".
21683 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
21684 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
21685 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
21686 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21688 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
21689 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
21690 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
21691 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
21692 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
21693 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
21694 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
21695 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
21696 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
21697 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
21698 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21700 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21701 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
21702 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
21703 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
21704 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
21705 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
21706 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
21707 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
21708 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
21709 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
21711 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
21712 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
21713 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
21714 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
21717 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21718 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
21719 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
21720 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
21721 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
21722 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
21724 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
21725 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21727 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21728 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
21729 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
21730 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21732 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21733 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
21734 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
21735 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21736 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
21737 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
21738 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
21739 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21740 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
21741 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
21742 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
21743 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
21744 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
21745 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
21747 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
21748 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
21749 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21750 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
21751 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
21752 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
21754 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21755 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
21756 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21757 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
21758 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
21759 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
21760 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
21761 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
21762 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
21763 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21764 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
21765 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21767 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21768 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21769 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21770 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21771 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21772 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21773 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
21774 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
21775 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21776 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21777 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21778 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21779 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21780 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21781 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21782 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21785 o Removed code and features:
21786 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
21787 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
21788 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
21789 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
21790 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
21791 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
21793 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
21794 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
21795 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
21796 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
21797 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
21798 part of a fix for bug 10841.
21800 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21801 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
21802 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
21803 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
21804 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
21805 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
21806 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
21807 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
21808 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
21809 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
21810 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
21813 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
21814 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
21815 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
21816 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
21817 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21819 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21820 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21821 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21822 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21823 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21824 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21825 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21828 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
21829 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
21830 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
21833 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
21834 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
21835 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
21836 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
21837 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
21838 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
21839 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
21841 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
21842 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
21845 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
21846 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
21847 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
21848 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
21849 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
21850 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
21851 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
21852 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
21854 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
21855 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21856 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
21857 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
21858 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
21859 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
21862 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
21863 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21864 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
21865 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
21866 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
21869 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
21870 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
21871 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
21872 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
21873 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
21874 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
21875 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
21876 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
21878 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
21879 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
21880 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
21881 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
21882 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
21883 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
21884 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
21885 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
21886 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
21887 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
21888 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
21889 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
21890 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
21891 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
21892 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
21893 security, and privacy fixes.
21896 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
21897 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
21898 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
21899 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
21902 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
21903 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
21904 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
21905 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
21906 them to solve bug 6033.)
21909 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
21910 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
21911 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
21912 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
21913 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
21914 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21915 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
21916 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
21918 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
21919 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
21920 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
21921 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21923 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
21924 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
21925 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21926 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
21927 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
21928 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
21929 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
21930 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
21931 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
21932 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21933 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
21934 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21936 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
21937 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21938 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21939 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21940 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21941 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21942 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
21943 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
21944 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21945 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21946 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21947 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21948 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21949 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21950 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21951 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21954 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
21955 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
21956 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
21957 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
21958 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
21959 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
21960 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
21961 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
21962 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
21963 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
21964 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
21965 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
21966 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
21967 Implements part of proposal 222.
21969 o Minor features (other):
21970 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
21971 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
21972 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
21973 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
21974 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
21975 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
21976 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
21977 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
21978 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21980 o Documentation fixes:
21981 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21982 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21983 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21984 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21985 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21986 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21989 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
21990 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
21991 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
21992 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
21993 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
21994 release of the new branch.
21996 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
21997 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
21998 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
22000 o Major features (security):
22001 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
22002 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
22003 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
22004 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
22005 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
22006 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
22007 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
22008 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
22009 Google Summer of Code.
22010 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
22011 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
22012 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
22013 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
22014 them to solve bug 6033.)
22016 o Major features (other):
22017 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
22018 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
22019 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
22020 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
22021 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
22023 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
22024 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
22025 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
22026 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
22027 Implements ticket 8530.
22028 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
22029 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
22032 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
22033 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
22034 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
22035 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
22036 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
22037 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22038 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
22039 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
22040 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22041 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
22042 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
22043 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
22044 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22047 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
22048 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
22049 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
22050 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
22051 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
22052 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
22053 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
22054 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
22055 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
22056 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
22060 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
22061 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
22062 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
22063 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
22064 invoking the other functions it calls.
22065 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
22066 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
22067 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
22068 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
22070 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
22071 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
22072 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
22073 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
22074 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
22075 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
22076 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
22077 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
22078 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
22079 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
22080 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
22081 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
22082 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
22083 Implements part of proposal 222.
22085 o Minor features (config options):
22086 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
22087 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
22088 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
22089 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
22090 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
22091 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
22092 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
22093 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
22094 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
22095 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
22096 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
22097 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
22098 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
22099 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
22100 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
22101 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
22102 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
22105 o Minor features (build):
22106 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
22107 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
22108 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
22109 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
22110 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
22113 o Minor features (other):
22114 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
22115 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
22116 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
22117 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
22118 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
22119 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
22120 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
22121 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
22122 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
22123 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
22124 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
22125 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
22126 Closes ticket 8109.
22127 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22130 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
22131 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
22132 bugfix on every released Tor.
22133 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
22134 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
22135 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
22136 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
22137 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
22138 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
22140 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
22141 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
22142 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
22143 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22144 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
22145 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
22146 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
22147 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22149 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
22150 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
22151 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
22152 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
22153 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
22155 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
22156 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22158 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
22159 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
22160 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
22162 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
22163 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
22164 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
22165 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
22166 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22168 o Minor code improvements:
22169 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
22170 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
22172 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
22173 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
22174 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
22175 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
22176 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
22178 o Removed features:
22179 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
22180 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
22181 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
22182 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
22184 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22185 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
22186 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
22187 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
22188 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
22189 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
22190 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
22191 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
22192 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
22193 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
22194 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
22195 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
22196 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
22197 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
22198 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
22199 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
22202 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
22203 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22204 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
22205 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
22206 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
22207 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
22208 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
22211 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
22212 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
22213 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
22214 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
22215 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
22216 Implements ticket 9574.
22219 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
22220 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
22221 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22222 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
22223 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
22224 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
22225 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
22226 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
22227 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22228 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
22229 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
22230 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
22234 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
22235 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
22236 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
22237 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
22239 o Minor fixes (config options):
22240 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
22241 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
22242 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
22243 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
22244 message is logged at notice, not at info.
22245 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
22246 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
22247 or we just won't work.)
22250 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
22251 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
22252 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
22253 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22256 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
22257 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22258 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
22261 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
22262 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
22263 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22264 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
22265 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22266 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
22267 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
22269 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
22270 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22271 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
22272 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
22275 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
22276 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
22277 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22278 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
22279 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
22280 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
22281 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
22282 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
22283 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
22284 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
22285 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22286 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
22287 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
22290 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22293 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
22294 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22295 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
22296 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
22299 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
22300 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
22301 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22304 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
22305 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
22306 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
22309 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
22310 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
22311 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22314 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
22315 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
22316 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
22317 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
22318 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
22319 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
22321 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
22322 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
22323 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
22324 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
22325 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
22326 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22328 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
22329 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
22330 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22333 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
22334 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
22335 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
22336 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
22337 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
22339 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
22340 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
22341 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
22342 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
22343 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
22344 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
22345 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
22347 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
22348 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
22349 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
22351 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
22352 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
22356 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
22357 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
22358 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
22360 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
22361 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
22362 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
22363 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
22364 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
22365 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
22367 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
22368 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
22369 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
22370 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
22371 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
22372 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
22373 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
22376 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
22377 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
22378 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
22379 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
22380 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
22381 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
22382 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22383 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
22384 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22385 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
22386 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
22387 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22388 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
22389 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
22391 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
22392 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
22393 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
22394 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
22397 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22398 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
22399 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
22400 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
22401 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
22402 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
22404 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
22405 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
22409 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
22410 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
22411 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
22412 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
22413 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
22414 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
22415 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22417 o Removed documentation:
22418 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
22419 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
22421 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22422 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
22423 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
22424 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
22427 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
22428 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
22429 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
22430 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
22431 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
22432 variety of other issues.
22435 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
22436 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
22437 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
22438 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
22439 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
22440 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22441 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
22442 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
22444 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
22445 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
22446 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
22448 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
22449 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
22450 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
22451 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22452 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
22453 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
22454 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22456 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
22457 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
22458 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
22459 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
22460 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
22461 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
22462 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
22463 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22464 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
22465 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
22466 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
22467 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
22468 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22469 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
22470 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
22471 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
22472 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
22473 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
22474 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
22475 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
22476 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22478 o Major bugfixes (other):
22479 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
22480 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
22481 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
22482 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22485 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
22486 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
22487 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
22488 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
22490 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
22491 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
22493 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22495 o Minor features (build):
22496 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
22497 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
22499 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
22500 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
22502 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
22503 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
22504 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
22507 o Minor bugfixes (build):
22508 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
22509 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22510 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22511 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
22512 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
22513 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22514 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
22515 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
22516 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22517 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
22518 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
22519 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
22520 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
22523 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
22524 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
22525 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
22526 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
22527 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
22528 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
22529 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
22530 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
22531 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
22532 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
22533 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
22534 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
22535 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
22536 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22537 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22539 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22540 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
22541 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22542 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
22543 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
22544 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
22545 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
22546 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22547 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
22548 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
22549 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
22550 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
22551 Should help resolve bug 8235.
22552 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
22553 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
22554 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
22555 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22557 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
22558 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
22559 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
22560 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
22561 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
22562 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
22563 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
22564 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
22567 o Minor bugfixes (config):
22568 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
22569 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
22571 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
22572 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
22573 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22574 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
22575 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
22576 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
22577 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22578 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
22579 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
22580 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22581 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
22582 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
22583 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22584 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
22585 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
22588 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
22589 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
22590 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
22591 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
22592 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
22593 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
22594 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
22595 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
22597 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
22598 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
22599 or at least make it more diagnosable.
22600 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
22601 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
22602 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
22603 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22605 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
22606 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
22607 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
22608 the relaxed timeout log message.
22609 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
22610 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
22611 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
22613 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
22614 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
22615 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22616 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
22617 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22618 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
22619 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
22622 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
22623 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
22624 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
22625 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
22626 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22627 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
22628 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22629 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
22630 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
22631 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
22632 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
22633 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
22634 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22635 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
22636 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
22637 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
22638 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22640 o Documentation fixes:
22641 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
22642 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
22643 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
22644 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
22645 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
22646 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
22647 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
22648 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
22651 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
22652 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
22656 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
22657 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
22658 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
22659 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
22661 o Major features (directory authorities):
22662 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
22663 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
22664 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
22665 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
22666 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
22667 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
22668 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
22669 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
22670 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
22671 Implements ticket 8151.
22673 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22674 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
22675 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
22676 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
22677 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
22679 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22680 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
22681 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
22682 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
22683 whether authentication information is present, causing all
22684 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
22685 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
22687 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
22688 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
22689 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
22690 bugs 1913 and 1992.
22691 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
22692 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
22693 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
22694 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
22695 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
22696 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
22697 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
22698 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
22699 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
22700 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
22701 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
22702 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
22703 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
22704 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
22705 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
22706 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
22707 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
22708 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
22711 o Minor features (portability):
22712 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
22713 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22714 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
22715 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
22716 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
22717 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
22718 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
22719 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22721 o Minor features (other):
22722 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
22723 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
22724 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
22725 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
22726 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
22727 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
22728 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
22729 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
22731 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22733 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22734 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
22735 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
22736 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
22737 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
22738 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
22739 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
22740 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
22741 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
22742 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
22744 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
22745 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
22746 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
22747 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22749 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22750 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
22751 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
22752 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
22753 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
22754 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
22755 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
22757 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
22758 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
22759 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
22760 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
22761 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
22763 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
22764 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
22765 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
22766 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
22768 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
22769 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
22770 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
22773 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
22774 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
22775 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
22776 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
22778 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
22779 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22780 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
22781 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22783 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
22784 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
22785 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
22786 this is CID 718634.
22787 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
22788 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
22789 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
22790 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
22792 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
22793 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
22794 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22795 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
22796 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
22797 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
22798 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22800 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22801 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
22805 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
22806 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
22807 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
22808 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
22809 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
22812 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
22813 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
22814 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
22815 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
22817 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
22818 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
22819 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
22823 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
22824 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
22825 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
22826 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
22827 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
22828 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
22829 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
22830 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
22831 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
22832 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
22833 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
22834 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
22835 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
22838 o Major features (relay):
22839 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
22840 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
22841 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
22842 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
22843 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
22844 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
22845 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
22847 o Major features (portability):
22848 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
22849 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
22850 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
22851 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
22852 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22855 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
22856 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
22857 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
22858 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
22859 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
22860 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
22862 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
22863 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
22864 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
22865 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
22866 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
22867 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
22868 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
22869 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
22871 o Minor features (path selection):
22872 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
22873 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
22874 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
22875 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
22876 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
22877 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
22878 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
22879 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
22880 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
22881 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
22882 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
22883 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
22884 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
22885 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
22886 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
22887 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
22888 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
22889 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
22890 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
22892 o Minor features (log messages):
22893 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
22894 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
22895 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
22896 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
22899 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
22900 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
22901 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22902 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
22903 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
22904 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
22905 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
22906 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
22907 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
22908 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22909 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
22910 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22912 o Build improvements:
22913 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
22914 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
22915 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
22916 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
22917 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
22918 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
22919 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
22920 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
22921 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
22922 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
22923 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
22924 than to perform erroneously.
22926 o Removed features:
22927 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
22928 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
22929 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
22931 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
22932 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
22933 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
22936 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22937 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
22939 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
22940 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
22944 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
22945 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
22946 work more robustly.
22949 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
22950 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
22951 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
22955 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
22956 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
22957 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
22958 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
22961 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
22962 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
22963 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
22964 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
22965 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
22966 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
22967 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
22968 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
22969 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
22970 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
22971 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
22972 closes ticket 7199.
22974 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
22975 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
22976 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
22977 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
22978 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
22979 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
22980 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
22981 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
22982 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
22983 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
22984 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
22986 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
22987 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
22988 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
22990 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
22991 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
22992 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
22994 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
22996 o Major features (better link encryption):
22997 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
22998 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
22999 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
23000 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
23001 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
23002 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
23005 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
23006 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
23007 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
23008 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
23009 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
23010 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
23011 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
23013 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
23014 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
23015 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
23016 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
23018 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
23021 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
23022 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
23023 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23026 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
23027 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
23028 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
23029 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
23030 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
23031 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
23032 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
23033 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
23034 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23036 o Minor features (testing):
23037 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
23038 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
23039 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
23041 o Minor features (path bias detection):
23042 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
23043 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
23044 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
23045 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
23046 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
23047 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
23048 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
23049 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
23050 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
23051 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
23052 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
23053 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
23054 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
23055 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
23056 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
23057 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
23058 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
23059 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
23060 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
23061 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
23062 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
23063 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
23064 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
23065 detection capability loss.
23067 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23068 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
23069 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
23070 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
23071 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23072 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
23073 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
23074 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
23077 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23078 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
23079 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
23080 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
23081 and the different handshakes it supports.
23082 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
23083 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
23084 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
23085 any encoding is overkill.
23088 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
23089 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
23090 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
23091 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
23092 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
23093 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
23094 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
23095 and fixes a variety of other issues.
23097 o Major features (client resilience):
23098 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
23099 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
23100 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
23101 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
23102 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
23103 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
23104 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
23105 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
23106 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
23107 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
23108 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
23109 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
23110 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
23111 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
23112 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
23114 o Major features (IPv6):
23115 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
23116 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
23117 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
23118 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
23119 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
23120 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
23121 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
23122 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
23124 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
23125 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
23127 o Major features (geoip database):
23128 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
23129 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
23130 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
23131 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
23132 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
23133 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
23134 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
23135 Country database, as modified above.
23137 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
23138 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
23139 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
23140 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
23141 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
23142 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
23143 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
23144 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
23145 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
23146 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
23147 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
23148 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
23149 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
23150 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
23151 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
23152 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
23153 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
23156 o Major bugfixes (other):
23157 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
23158 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
23159 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
23160 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
23161 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
23162 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
23163 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
23164 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
23166 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
23167 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
23170 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
23171 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
23172 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
23173 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
23174 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
23175 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
23176 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
23177 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
23179 o Minor features (IPv6):
23180 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
23181 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
23182 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
23183 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
23184 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
23185 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
23186 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
23187 connect to the wrong addresses.
23188 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
23189 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
23190 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
23191 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
23195 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
23196 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
23197 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
23198 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
23199 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
23200 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
23201 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
23203 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
23204 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
23205 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
23208 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
23209 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
23211 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23212 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
23213 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
23214 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
23215 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
23218 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
23219 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
23220 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
23221 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
23222 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
23223 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
23224 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
23225 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
23227 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
23228 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
23229 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
23230 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
23231 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
23232 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
23233 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
23234 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
23235 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
23236 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
23237 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
23240 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
23241 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
23242 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
23243 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
23244 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
23245 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
23246 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
23247 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
23248 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
23249 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
23252 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
23253 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
23257 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
23258 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
23259 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
23260 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
23263 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
23264 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
23266 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
23267 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
23268 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
23269 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
23270 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
23271 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
23272 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
23273 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
23274 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
23275 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
23278 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
23280 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
23281 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
23282 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
23283 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
23284 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
23287 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
23288 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
23289 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23290 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
23291 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
23293 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
23294 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
23295 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
23296 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
23297 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
23298 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
23299 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
23301 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
23302 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23303 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
23304 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
23305 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
23306 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23307 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
23308 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23310 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23311 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
23312 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
23313 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
23314 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
23315 present the same extensions.)
23318 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
23319 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
23320 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
23321 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
23322 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
23324 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
23325 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
23326 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
23327 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
23329 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
23330 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
23331 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
23332 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23334 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
23335 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
23336 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
23337 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
23338 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
23339 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
23340 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
23341 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
23342 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23344 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
23345 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
23346 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
23347 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
23348 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23351 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
23352 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
23353 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
23355 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23356 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
23358 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
23359 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
23363 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
23364 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
23365 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
23366 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
23369 o Major bugfixes (security):
23370 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
23371 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
23372 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
23374 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
23375 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
23376 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
23377 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23380 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
23381 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
23382 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
23383 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
23384 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
23385 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
23386 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
23387 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23390 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
23391 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
23392 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
23393 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23396 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
23397 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
23398 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
23399 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
23400 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
23401 scheduling algorithms.
23403 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
23404 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
23405 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
23407 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
23408 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
23409 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
23410 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
23411 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
23412 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
23413 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
23414 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
23415 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
23416 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
23417 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
23419 o Internal abstraction features:
23420 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
23421 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
23422 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
23423 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
23424 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
23425 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
23426 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
23427 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
23428 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
23429 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
23430 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
23431 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
23432 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
23433 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
23434 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
23435 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
23436 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
23438 o Required libraries:
23439 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
23440 strongly recommended.
23443 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
23444 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
23445 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
23446 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
23447 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
23448 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
23449 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
23450 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
23451 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
23453 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
23454 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
23455 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
23456 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
23457 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
23458 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
23459 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
23460 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23461 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
23462 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
23463 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
23464 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
23465 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
23466 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
23467 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23470 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
23471 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
23472 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
23473 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
23474 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
23475 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
23476 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
23477 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
23478 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
23479 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
23480 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
23481 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
23482 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
23483 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
23484 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23485 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
23486 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
23487 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
23488 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
23490 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
23491 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
23492 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
23493 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
23494 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
23495 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
23496 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
23499 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
23500 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
23501 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
23502 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
23504 o New directory authorities:
23505 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
23506 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
23508 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
23509 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
23510 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
23511 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
23512 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
23513 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
23514 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
23515 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
23516 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
23517 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
23518 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
23521 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
23522 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
23523 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
23525 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23526 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
23527 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
23528 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23529 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
23530 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
23531 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23532 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
23533 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
23535 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23536 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
23537 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
23538 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
23539 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
23540 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
23541 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
23542 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
23543 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
23544 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
23545 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
23546 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
23547 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23548 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
23549 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
23550 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
23551 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
23552 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
23554 o Documentation fixes:
23555 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
23558 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
23559 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
23560 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
23561 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
23564 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
23565 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23566 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23569 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
23570 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
23571 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
23572 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
23573 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
23574 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
23575 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
23576 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
23578 o Security features:
23579 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
23580 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
23581 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
23582 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
23583 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
23584 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
23585 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
23586 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
23587 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
23591 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
23592 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
23593 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
23596 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
23597 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
23598 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23599 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
23600 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23601 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
23602 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
23603 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
23604 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
23605 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
23606 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23607 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
23608 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
23609 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
23611 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
23612 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23613 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
23614 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
23615 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23617 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
23618 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
23619 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
23620 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23621 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
23622 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
23623 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23624 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
23625 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
23626 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
23627 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
23628 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
23629 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
23630 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23631 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
23632 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
23633 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
23634 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
23635 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
23636 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
23638 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23639 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
23640 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
23641 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
23642 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
23643 testable, and a little less fragile too.
23644 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
23645 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23647 o Documentation fixes:
23648 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
23649 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
23653 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
23654 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
23658 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
23659 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23660 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23663 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
23664 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
23668 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
23669 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
23673 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
23674 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23675 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23676 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
23677 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
23678 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
23679 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
23683 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
23684 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
23685 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
23686 log messages less noisy.
23689 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
23690 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
23694 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
23695 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
23696 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
23697 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
23698 last time we raised it).
23701 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
23702 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
23704 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
23705 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
23706 part of ticket 6736.
23707 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
23708 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
23709 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
23713 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
23714 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
23715 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
23716 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
23717 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
23719 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
23720 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23721 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
23722 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
23723 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23724 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
23725 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
23726 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23727 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
23728 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23729 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
23730 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23732 o Removed features:
23733 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
23734 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
23735 bunch of compatibility code.
23737 o Code refactoring:
23738 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
23739 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
23740 the ORPort and the DirPort.
23743 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
23744 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
23745 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
23746 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
23748 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
23749 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
23750 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
23752 o Major features (bridges):
23753 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
23754 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
23755 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
23758 o Major features (IPv6):
23759 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
23760 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
23761 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
23762 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
23763 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
23764 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
23765 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
23766 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
23767 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
23769 o Major features (build):
23770 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
23771 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
23772 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
23773 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
23774 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
23775 fixes by Jim Meyering.
23776 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
23777 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
23778 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
23780 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
23781 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
23782 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
23783 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
23784 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
23785 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
23786 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
23787 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
23788 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
23789 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
23790 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
23792 o Minor features (streamlining);
23793 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
23794 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
23796 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
23797 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
23798 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
23799 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
23800 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
23801 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23803 o Minor features (controller):
23804 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
23806 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
23807 Implements ticket 4971.
23809 o Minor features (IPv6):
23810 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
23811 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
23812 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
23813 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
23814 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
23816 o Minor features (log messages):
23817 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
23818 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
23819 Resolves ticket 6758.
23820 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
23821 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
23822 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
23823 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23824 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
23825 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
23826 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
23828 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
23829 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
23830 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
23831 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
23832 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
23835 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23836 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
23837 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
23838 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
23839 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
23841 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
23842 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
23843 Implements ticket 5529.
23844 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
23845 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
23846 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
23847 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
23848 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
23849 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
23850 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
23851 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
23852 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
23853 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
23855 o New requirements:
23856 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
23857 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
23858 from a source distribution.)
23861 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
23862 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
23863 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
23864 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
23865 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
23866 and cleans up other smaller issues.
23868 o Major bugfixes (security):
23869 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
23870 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
23871 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
23872 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
23873 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
23874 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
23875 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
23876 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
23877 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
23878 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
23879 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
23880 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
23881 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
23882 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
23883 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
23884 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
23888 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
23889 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
23890 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
23891 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23892 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
23893 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
23894 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
23895 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
23896 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
23897 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23900 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
23901 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
23902 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
23903 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
23904 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23905 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
23906 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
23907 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
23908 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
23909 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
23910 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
23912 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
23913 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
23914 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
23916 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
23917 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
23918 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
23919 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
23920 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23921 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
23922 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
23923 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
23924 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23925 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
23926 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23927 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
23928 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
23929 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
23932 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23933 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
23934 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
23935 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
23936 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23937 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
23938 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
23939 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
23940 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
23941 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
23942 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
23943 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
23944 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
23945 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
23946 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
23949 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
23950 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
23951 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
23952 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
23953 Resolves ticket 6732.
23956 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
23957 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
23958 attack that could in theory leak path information.
23961 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
23962 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
23963 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23964 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
23965 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
23966 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
23967 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
23968 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
23969 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
23970 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
23971 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
23972 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
23973 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
23974 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23977 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
23978 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
23979 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
23980 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
23983 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
23984 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
23985 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23986 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
23987 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
23988 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23989 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
23990 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
23991 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
23992 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
23993 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
23994 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
23995 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
23996 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
23997 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
23998 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
23999 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
24002 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
24003 a little more useful.
24004 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
24005 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24006 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
24007 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
24008 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
24009 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
24010 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
24013 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
24014 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24015 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
24016 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24017 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
24018 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
24022 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
24023 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
24024 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
24025 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
24026 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
24029 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
24030 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
24031 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
24034 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
24036 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
24038 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24039 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
24040 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
24041 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
24042 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
24045 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
24046 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24047 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
24048 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
24049 since the beginning of Tor.
24052 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
24053 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
24054 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
24055 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
24056 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
24057 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
24058 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
24059 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24060 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
24061 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
24064 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
24065 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
24068 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
24069 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24070 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24071 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24074 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
24075 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24076 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
24077 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
24078 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
24079 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24081 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24082 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
24083 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
24084 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
24085 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
24086 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
24087 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24088 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
24089 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
24090 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
24091 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
24092 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
24093 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
24094 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24095 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
24096 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
24097 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24098 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
24099 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
24101 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24102 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
24103 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
24105 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
24106 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24107 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
24108 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
24110 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
24111 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24112 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
24113 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24114 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
24115 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
24116 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24117 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
24118 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24119 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
24120 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24121 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
24122 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
24123 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24124 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
24125 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
24128 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
24129 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
24130 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
24131 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
24132 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
24135 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
24136 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
24137 options. Closes bug 4748.
24140 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
24141 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
24142 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
24143 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
24144 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
24148 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
24149 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
24151 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
24152 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
24153 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
24154 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
24155 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
24156 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
24157 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
24158 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
24159 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
24162 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
24163 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
24164 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
24165 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
24166 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
24167 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
24168 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
24169 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24172 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
24173 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
24174 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
24175 case for flushing marked connections.
24176 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
24177 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24178 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
24179 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
24180 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
24181 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
24182 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24183 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
24184 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24185 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
24186 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
24187 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
24188 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24189 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
24190 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
24191 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
24192 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
24193 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
24194 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
24195 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
24196 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
24197 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
24198 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24199 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
24200 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
24202 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
24203 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24204 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
24208 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
24209 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
24210 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
24211 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
24212 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
24213 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
24214 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
24215 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
24216 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
24217 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
24218 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
24219 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
24220 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
24221 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
24222 Addresses ticket 5458.
24223 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24225 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24226 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
24227 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
24230 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
24231 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
24232 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
24236 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
24237 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
24238 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
24239 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
24240 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
24241 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
24242 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24243 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
24244 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
24245 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
24246 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24249 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
24250 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
24253 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
24254 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
24257 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
24258 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
24259 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
24260 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
24261 that get us closer to a release candidate.
24263 o Major bugfixes (general):
24264 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
24265 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
24266 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
24267 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
24268 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
24269 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
24270 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24271 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
24272 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
24274 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
24275 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
24276 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
24277 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
24280 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24281 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
24282 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
24283 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
24284 which introduced predicted ports.
24285 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
24286 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
24287 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
24288 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24289 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
24290 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
24291 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
24292 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
24293 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
24294 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
24295 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24296 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
24297 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
24299 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
24300 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
24301 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
24302 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
24303 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
24304 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
24305 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
24306 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
24307 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
24308 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
24309 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
24313 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
24314 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
24315 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
24316 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
24317 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
24318 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
24319 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
24320 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
24321 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
24322 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
24323 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
24324 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
24325 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
24326 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
24328 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
24329 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
24330 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
24331 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
24332 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
24333 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
24334 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
24335 sure. Closes bug 5139.
24336 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
24337 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
24338 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
24339 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
24340 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
24341 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
24342 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24344 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
24345 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
24346 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
24347 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
24348 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
24349 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
24350 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
24351 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
24352 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
24353 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
24354 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
24355 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
24356 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
24357 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
24358 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
24359 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
24360 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
24361 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24362 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
24363 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
24365 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24366 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
24367 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
24368 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
24369 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
24370 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
24371 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
24372 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
24373 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
24374 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
24375 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
24376 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
24377 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
24379 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
24380 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24381 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
24382 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
24384 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
24385 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
24386 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24387 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
24388 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
24389 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
24390 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
24391 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
24392 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
24393 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
24395 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
24396 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
24397 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
24399 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24400 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
24401 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
24402 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
24403 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
24404 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
24405 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
24406 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
24407 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
24408 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
24409 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
24410 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24411 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
24412 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
24413 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
24414 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24415 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
24416 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
24417 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
24418 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
24420 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
24421 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
24422 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24423 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
24424 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
24425 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
24427 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
24428 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
24429 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
24431 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
24432 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
24433 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
24434 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24435 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
24436 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24438 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24439 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
24440 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
24442 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
24443 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
24444 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24445 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
24446 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
24447 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24448 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
24449 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
24450 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
24451 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24452 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
24453 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
24454 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
24455 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
24456 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
24457 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
24459 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
24460 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
24461 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24462 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
24463 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
24464 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24465 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
24466 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24467 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
24468 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24469 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
24470 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
24471 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
24474 o Documentation fixes:
24475 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
24476 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
24477 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
24478 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
24479 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
24480 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
24483 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
24484 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
24488 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
24489 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
24490 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
24491 and fixes several crash bugs.
24493 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
24494 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
24495 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
24496 those packages and upgrade anyway.
24498 o Directory authority changes:
24499 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
24500 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
24504 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
24505 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
24506 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
24507 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
24508 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
24509 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
24510 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
24511 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
24512 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
24513 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
24514 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
24515 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
24516 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
24517 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
24518 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
24519 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
24520 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
24521 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
24522 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
24523 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
24524 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
24525 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
24526 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
24527 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
24528 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
24529 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
24530 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
24533 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
24534 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24535 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
24536 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
24538 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
24539 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
24541 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
24542 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
24543 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
24544 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
24545 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
24546 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
24547 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
24548 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
24551 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
24552 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
24553 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
24554 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
24555 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
24556 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
24557 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
24558 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
24559 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
24560 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
24561 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
24562 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
24563 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
24564 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
24565 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
24566 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
24567 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
24568 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
24569 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
24570 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
24571 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
24572 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
24573 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
24574 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
24575 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
24576 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
24577 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
24578 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
24579 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
24580 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
24581 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
24582 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
24583 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24584 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
24585 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24586 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
24587 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
24588 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
24589 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
24590 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24591 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
24592 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
24593 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
24594 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
24595 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
24596 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24598 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
24599 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
24600 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
24601 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
24602 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
24603 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
24604 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
24605 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
24606 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
24607 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
24608 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24609 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
24610 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24611 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
24612 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
24615 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
24616 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
24617 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
24618 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
24620 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24623 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
24624 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
24625 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
24626 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
24627 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
24628 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
24629 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
24632 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
24633 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
24634 the development branch build on Windows again.
24636 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24637 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
24638 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
24639 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
24640 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
24641 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
24642 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
24643 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
24644 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
24645 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
24646 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
24647 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
24648 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24649 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
24650 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
24652 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24653 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
24654 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
24655 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24656 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
24657 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
24658 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
24659 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
24660 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
24661 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
24662 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
24663 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24666 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
24667 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
24668 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
24669 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
24670 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
24671 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
24672 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
24673 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
24674 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
24676 o Removed features:
24677 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
24678 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
24679 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
24680 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
24684 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
24685 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
24686 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
24687 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
24689 o Directory authority changes:
24690 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
24694 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
24695 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24696 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
24697 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
24699 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
24700 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
24701 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
24702 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
24703 documents entirely.
24704 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
24705 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
24706 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24708 o Major features (performance):
24709 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
24710 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
24711 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
24712 much faster than other AES implementations.
24714 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
24715 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
24716 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
24717 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
24718 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
24719 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
24720 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
24721 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
24722 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
24723 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
24724 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
24725 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
24726 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
24727 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
24728 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24729 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
24730 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
24731 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
24733 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
24734 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
24735 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
24736 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24737 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
24738 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24739 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
24740 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
24741 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
24743 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
24744 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
24745 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24746 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
24747 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
24748 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24751 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
24752 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
24753 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
24754 please let us know about it.
24755 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
24756 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
24757 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
24758 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
24759 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24760 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24761 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
24762 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
24764 o Default torrc changes:
24765 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
24766 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
24768 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
24769 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
24770 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
24773 o Removed features:
24774 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
24775 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
24776 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
24777 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
24779 o Code refactoring:
24780 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
24781 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
24782 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
24783 it would be a bad idea to start.
24786 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
24787 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
24788 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
24789 that get us closer to a release candidate.
24791 o Directory authority changes:
24792 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
24795 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
24796 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
24797 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
24798 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
24799 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
24800 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
24801 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
24802 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
24803 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
24804 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
24805 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
24806 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
24807 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
24808 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
24809 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
24810 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
24812 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
24813 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
24814 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
24815 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
24816 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
24817 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24818 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
24819 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
24820 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24821 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
24822 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
24823 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
24825 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
24826 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
24827 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24828 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
24829 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
24831 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24832 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
24833 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
24834 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
24835 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
24836 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
24837 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
24838 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
24839 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
24840 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
24841 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
24842 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
24843 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24844 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
24845 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24846 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
24847 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
24848 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
24849 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
24850 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
24851 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
24852 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
24855 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24856 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
24857 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24858 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
24859 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
24860 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
24861 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
24862 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
24863 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24864 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
24865 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
24866 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
24867 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
24868 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
24869 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
24870 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
24871 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
24874 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
24875 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
24876 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24879 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
24880 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
24881 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
24882 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
24885 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
24886 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
24888 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
24889 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
24890 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
24891 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24892 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
24893 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
24894 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
24895 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24896 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
24897 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
24898 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
24899 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24902 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
24903 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
24904 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
24905 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
24906 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
24907 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
24908 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24911 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
24912 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
24913 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
24914 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24915 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
24916 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
24917 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
24918 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
24919 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
24920 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
24922 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
24923 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
24924 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
24925 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
24926 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24927 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
24928 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
24929 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
24930 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
24933 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24934 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
24935 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
24939 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
24940 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
24941 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
24942 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
24943 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
24944 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
24947 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
24948 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
24949 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
24950 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
24951 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
24952 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
24953 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
24954 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
24956 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
24957 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
24958 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
24959 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
24960 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
24961 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
24962 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
24963 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
24965 o Major security workaround:
24966 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
24967 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
24968 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
24969 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
24970 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
24971 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
24972 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
24973 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
24974 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
24975 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
24976 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
24979 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
24980 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
24981 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
24982 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
24983 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
24984 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
24985 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
24986 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24987 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
24988 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
24989 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
24990 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
24991 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
24993 o Minor features (controller):
24994 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
24995 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
24996 file. Resolves bug 1101.
24997 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
24998 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
24999 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
25000 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
25001 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
25002 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
25004 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
25005 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
25006 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
25007 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
25008 part of ticket 3457.
25009 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
25010 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
25011 circuit-status' control-port command.
25013 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25014 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
25015 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
25016 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
25017 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
25019 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
25020 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
25021 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
25022 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
25023 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
25024 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
25025 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
25027 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
25028 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
25030 o Minor features (other):
25031 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
25032 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
25033 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
25034 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
25035 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
25036 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
25037 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
25038 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
25040 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
25041 them from the other auths.
25042 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
25043 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
25044 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
25045 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
25046 the 0.2.3.x series.
25047 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25049 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25050 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
25051 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
25052 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
25053 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
25054 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
25055 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
25056 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
25057 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
25058 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
25059 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25060 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
25061 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
25062 be disabled using the new
25063 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
25064 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25065 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
25066 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
25067 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
25068 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
25069 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
25070 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
25071 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
25072 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
25073 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
25074 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
25076 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
25077 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
25078 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
25081 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25082 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
25083 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
25085 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
25086 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
25087 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
25088 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
25089 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
25090 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
25091 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
25093 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
25094 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
25095 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
25096 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
25097 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
25098 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
25099 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
25100 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
25102 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
25103 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
25104 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
25105 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
25106 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
25107 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
25108 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
25109 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
25110 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
25113 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25114 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
25115 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
25116 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
25117 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
25118 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
25119 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
25120 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
25121 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
25122 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
25123 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
25124 accidentally been reverted.
25125 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
25126 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
25127 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
25128 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
25129 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
25130 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
25131 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
25132 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
25133 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
25134 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25135 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
25136 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
25137 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
25138 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
25139 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25140 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
25141 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25142 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
25143 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25146 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
25147 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
25148 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
25149 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
25150 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
25151 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
25152 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
25154 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25155 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
25156 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
25157 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
25158 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
25159 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
25160 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
25162 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
25163 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
25164 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
25165 invalid value, rather than just -1.
25166 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
25167 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
25168 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
25169 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
25170 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
25171 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
25172 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
25176 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
25177 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
25178 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
25180 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
25181 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
25182 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
25183 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
25184 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
25185 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
25186 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
25187 (which Tor does not do by default).
25189 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
25190 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
25191 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
25192 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
25193 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
25195 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
25199 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
25200 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
25201 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
25202 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
25205 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
25206 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
25207 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
25208 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
25209 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
25210 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
25211 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
25212 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
25213 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
25214 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
25215 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25218 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25221 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
25222 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
25223 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
25225 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
25226 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
25227 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
25228 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
25229 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
25230 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
25231 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
25232 (which Tor does not do by default).
25234 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
25235 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
25236 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
25237 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
25238 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
25240 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
25241 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
25242 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
25245 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
25246 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
25247 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
25248 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
25249 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25251 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
25252 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
25255 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
25256 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
25257 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
25258 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
25259 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
25260 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
25261 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
25262 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
25264 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
25265 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
25266 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
25267 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
25268 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
25269 close based on processing a cell on it.
25270 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
25271 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
25272 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
25273 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25274 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
25275 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
25276 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25277 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
25278 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
25279 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
25280 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
25281 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
25282 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
25283 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
25284 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
25287 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
25288 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
25289 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
25290 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
25291 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
25292 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
25293 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
25295 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
25296 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
25297 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
25298 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
25299 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
25300 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25301 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
25302 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
25303 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25304 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
25305 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
25306 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
25307 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
25308 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25309 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
25310 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
25311 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
25312 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
25313 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25314 Reported by "troll_un".
25315 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
25316 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25317 Reported by "troll_un".
25318 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
25319 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
25320 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
25321 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
25324 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
25325 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
25326 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
25327 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
25328 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
25329 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
25330 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
25331 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
25332 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
25333 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
25334 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25336 o Packaging changes:
25337 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
25338 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
25341 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
25342 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
25343 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
25344 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
25345 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
25347 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
25348 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
25350 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25351 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
25352 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
25353 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
25354 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25355 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
25356 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
25357 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
25358 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
25361 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25364 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
25365 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
25366 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
25367 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
25368 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
25369 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
25370 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
25373 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
25374 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
25375 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
25376 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
25377 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
25378 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
25379 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
25380 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
25381 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
25382 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
25383 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
25384 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
25385 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
25386 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
25387 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
25388 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
25389 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
25390 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
25391 Resolves ticket 4526.
25392 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
25393 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
25394 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
25395 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
25396 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
25397 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
25398 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
25399 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
25400 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
25401 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
25402 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
25403 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
25404 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
25405 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
25406 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
25407 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
25410 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
25411 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
25412 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
25413 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
25414 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
25415 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
25416 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
25417 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
25418 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
25419 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
25421 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
25422 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
25423 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
25424 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
25425 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
25426 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
25427 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
25428 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
25429 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
25431 o Minor features (new/different config options):
25432 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
25433 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
25434 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
25435 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
25436 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
25437 Implements issue 933.
25438 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
25439 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
25440 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
25441 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
25442 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
25443 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
25444 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
25445 appending to the list.
25446 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
25447 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
25448 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
25449 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
25451 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
25452 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
25453 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
25454 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
25455 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
25456 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
25457 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
25458 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
25461 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
25462 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
25463 Resolves ticket 2474.
25464 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
25465 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
25466 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
25467 Required by fix for bug 3460.
25468 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
25469 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
25470 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
25471 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
25472 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
25473 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
25474 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
25475 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
25476 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
25478 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25479 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
25480 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
25482 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
25484 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
25485 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
25487 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
25488 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
25489 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
25490 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
25491 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
25492 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
25493 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
25495 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
25496 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
25497 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25498 Reported by "troll_un".
25499 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
25500 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25501 Reported by "troll_un".
25502 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
25503 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
25504 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
25505 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
25507 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
25508 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
25510 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
25511 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
25512 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
25513 with help from wanoskarnet.
25514 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
25515 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25518 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
25519 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
25520 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
25521 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25523 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
25524 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
25525 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
25526 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
25527 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
25528 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
25529 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
25530 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
25533 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
25534 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
25535 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
25536 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
25537 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
25538 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
25539 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
25540 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
25541 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
25544 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
25545 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
25546 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
25547 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
25549 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
25550 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
25551 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
25552 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25553 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
25554 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
25555 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
25556 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
25557 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
25558 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
25559 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
25560 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
25561 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
25562 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
25563 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
25564 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
25565 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
25566 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
25567 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
25568 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
25569 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
25570 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
25571 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
25572 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
25575 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
25576 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
25577 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
25578 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
25579 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
25580 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25581 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
25582 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
25585 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25586 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
25587 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
25588 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
25589 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
25590 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
25591 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
25592 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
25593 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
25594 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
25595 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
25596 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
25597 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
25598 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
25599 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
25601 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
25602 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
25603 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
25604 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
25605 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25606 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
25607 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
25608 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25609 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
25610 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
25611 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
25612 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
25613 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
25614 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25615 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
25616 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
25617 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25619 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25620 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
25621 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
25622 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
25623 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25624 Found by frosty_un.
25625 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
25626 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
25627 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
25629 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
25630 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
25631 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
25633 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
25634 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
25636 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
25637 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25640 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
25641 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
25642 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
25643 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
25644 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
25645 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
25646 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
25647 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
25648 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
25649 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
25650 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
25651 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
25652 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
25653 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
25655 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
25656 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
25657 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25659 o Packaging changes:
25660 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
25661 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
25663 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25664 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
25665 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
25666 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
25667 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
25668 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
25669 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
25670 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
25671 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
25674 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
25676 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
25677 ./src/test/bench binary.
25678 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
25679 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
25682 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
25683 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
25684 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
25688 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
25689 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
25690 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
25691 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
25692 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
25693 close based on processing a cell on it.
25694 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
25695 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
25696 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25697 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
25698 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
25699 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
25700 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
25701 cells were introduced.
25704 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
25705 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
25708 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
25709 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
25710 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
25711 users. Everybody should upgrade.
25713 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
25714 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
25717 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
25718 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
25719 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
25720 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
25721 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
25722 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
25724 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
25725 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
25726 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
25727 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
25728 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
25729 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
25730 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
25731 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
25732 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
25733 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
25734 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
25735 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
25736 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
25737 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
25738 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
25739 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
25740 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
25741 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
25744 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25745 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
25746 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
25747 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
25748 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
25749 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
25750 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
25751 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
25752 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
25753 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
25754 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
25755 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
25756 Partly fixes bug 3825.
25757 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
25758 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
25759 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
25760 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
25761 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
25762 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
25763 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
25765 o Major bugfixes (other):
25766 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
25767 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
25768 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
25769 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25770 Found by "frosty_un".
25771 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
25772 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
25773 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
25774 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
25775 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
25776 immensely in tracking this bug down.
25777 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
25778 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
25781 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25782 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
25783 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
25784 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
25785 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
25786 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
25787 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
25788 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
25789 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
25790 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
25791 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
25792 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
25793 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
25794 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25795 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
25796 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
25797 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
25798 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
25799 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
25800 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
25801 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
25803 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25804 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
25805 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
25806 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25807 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
25808 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
25809 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
25810 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
25811 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
25812 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
25813 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
25816 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
25817 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
25818 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
25819 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
25820 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
25821 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
25822 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
25823 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
25824 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
25825 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
25826 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
25827 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
25828 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
25829 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25831 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25832 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
25833 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
25834 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
25835 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
25836 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
25837 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
25838 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
25841 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
25842 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
25843 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
25845 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
25846 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
25847 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
25848 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
25849 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
25850 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
25851 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
25852 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
25853 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
25854 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
25855 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
25856 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
25857 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
25859 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
25860 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
25861 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
25862 currently connected to them.
25864 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
25865 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
25866 remain; see for example proposal 188.
25868 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
25869 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
25870 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
25871 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
25872 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
25873 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
25874 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
25875 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
25876 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
25877 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
25878 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
25879 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
25880 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
25881 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
25882 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
25883 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
25884 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
25885 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
25888 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
25889 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
25890 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
25891 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
25892 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
25893 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
25894 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
25895 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
25896 when bridges were introduced.
25897 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
25898 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
25899 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
25900 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25901 Found by "frosty_un".
25904 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
25905 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
25907 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
25908 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
25909 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
25910 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
25911 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
25912 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
25913 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
25916 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
25917 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
25918 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
25919 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
25920 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
25921 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
25922 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
25923 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
25924 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
25925 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
25926 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
25927 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
25928 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
25929 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
25930 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
25931 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
25932 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
25933 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
25935 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
25936 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
25937 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
25938 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25939 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
25940 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
25941 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
25942 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
25943 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
25944 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
25945 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
25946 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25949 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
25950 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
25951 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
25952 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25955 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
25956 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
25957 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
25958 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
25959 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
25961 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25962 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
25963 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
25964 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
25965 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
25966 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
25967 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
25968 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
25969 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
25970 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25972 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25973 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
25974 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
25975 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
25976 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
25977 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
25978 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
25979 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
25980 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
25981 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
25982 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
25983 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
25984 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
25985 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
25986 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25987 Found by "frosty_un".
25988 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
25989 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
25990 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
25991 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
25992 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
25993 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
25994 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
25995 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
25996 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
25997 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
25998 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
25999 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
26000 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26001 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
26002 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
26003 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
26004 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
26005 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
26006 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
26008 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26009 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
26010 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
26011 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
26012 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
26013 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
26014 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
26015 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
26017 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
26018 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
26019 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
26020 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
26021 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
26022 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
26023 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
26024 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
26025 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
26026 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
26027 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
26028 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
26030 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
26031 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26032 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
26033 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26034 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
26035 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26036 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
26037 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
26038 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
26040 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
26042 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
26043 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
26044 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
26045 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26046 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
26047 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
26048 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
26049 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26051 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
26052 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
26053 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
26054 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
26055 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
26057 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26058 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
26059 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
26060 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
26061 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26064 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
26065 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
26066 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
26067 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
26068 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
26071 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
26072 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
26073 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
26074 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
26075 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
26076 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
26077 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
26078 when bridges were introduced.
26081 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
26082 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
26083 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26085 o Major features (networking):
26086 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
26087 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
26088 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
26089 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
26090 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
26094 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
26095 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
26096 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
26098 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
26099 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
26100 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
26101 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
26102 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26104 o Minor features (diagnostics):
26105 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
26106 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
26109 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
26110 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
26111 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
26112 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
26113 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
26114 listed in the network consensus and republish.
26116 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26117 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
26118 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
26119 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26121 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
26122 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
26123 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
26124 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
26125 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
26126 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
26127 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
26128 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
26129 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
26130 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
26131 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
26133 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26134 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
26135 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
26136 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
26137 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
26138 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
26139 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
26140 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
26141 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
26142 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26144 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26145 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
26146 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
26147 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
26148 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
26149 fixes part of bug 2442.
26150 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
26151 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
26152 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
26154 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
26155 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
26156 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
26157 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
26158 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26160 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26161 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
26162 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
26163 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
26164 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
26167 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
26168 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
26169 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
26173 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
26174 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
26175 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
26176 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
26177 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
26178 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
26179 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
26182 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
26183 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
26184 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
26185 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
26186 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
26187 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
26188 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
26191 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
26192 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
26193 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
26194 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
26195 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
26196 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
26197 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
26198 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
26199 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26201 o Code refactoring:
26202 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
26203 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
26206 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
26207 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
26208 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
26209 reachable from Iran again.
26212 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
26213 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
26214 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26216 o Minor features (security):
26217 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
26218 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
26219 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
26220 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
26221 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
26222 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
26223 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
26224 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
26225 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
26226 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
26229 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
26230 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
26231 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
26232 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
26233 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
26234 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
26235 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
26236 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
26237 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26239 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
26240 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
26241 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
26242 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
26243 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
26244 raised by bug 3898.
26245 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
26246 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
26247 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
26248 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
26249 fixes part of bug 2442.
26250 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
26251 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
26252 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
26254 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
26255 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
26256 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
26257 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
26258 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26261 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
26262 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
26263 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
26264 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
26265 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
26266 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
26269 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
26270 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
26271 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
26272 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
26273 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
26274 bufferevent-based networking backend.
26276 o Major features (stream isolation):
26277 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
26278 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
26279 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
26280 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
26281 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
26282 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
26283 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
26284 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
26285 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
26286 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
26287 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
26288 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
26289 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
26290 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
26292 o Major features (other):
26293 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
26294 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
26295 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
26296 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
26297 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
26298 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
26299 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
26300 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
26301 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
26302 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
26303 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
26304 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
26305 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
26307 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
26308 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
26310 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
26311 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
26312 Fixes part of bug 3752.
26313 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
26314 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
26315 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
26316 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
26317 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
26318 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
26319 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
26320 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
26321 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
26322 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
26323 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
26324 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
26325 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
26326 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
26327 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
26328 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
26329 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
26331 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
26332 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
26333 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
26334 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
26335 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
26336 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
26339 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
26340 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
26341 user. Implements ticket 1692.
26342 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
26343 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
26344 best copy data out of a buffer.
26345 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
26346 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
26347 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
26349 o Minor features (build compatibility):
26350 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
26351 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
26352 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
26354 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
26355 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26357 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
26358 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
26359 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
26360 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
26361 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
26362 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
26363 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26365 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
26366 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
26367 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
26368 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
26369 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
26370 raised by bug 3898.
26371 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
26372 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
26373 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
26376 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
26377 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
26378 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
26379 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
26380 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
26381 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
26382 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
26383 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
26384 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
26385 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
26386 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
26387 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26388 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
26389 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
26390 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
26391 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
26392 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
26393 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
26394 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
26397 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26398 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
26399 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
26403 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
26404 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
26405 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
26406 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
26407 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
26408 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
26411 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
26412 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
26413 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
26414 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
26415 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
26416 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
26417 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
26418 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
26419 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
26420 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
26422 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
26423 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
26424 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
26425 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
26426 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
26427 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
26428 many many other features and bugfixes.
26431 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
26432 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
26433 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
26436 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
26437 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
26438 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
26439 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
26440 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
26441 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
26442 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
26443 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
26446 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26449 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
26450 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
26451 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26452 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
26453 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
26454 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
26455 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
26456 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
26457 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
26458 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
26459 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
26460 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
26461 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
26462 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26463 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
26464 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
26465 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
26466 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
26470 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
26471 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
26472 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
26473 up a variety of recently introduced features.
26476 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
26477 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
26478 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
26479 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
26480 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
26481 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
26482 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
26483 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
26484 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
26485 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
26486 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
26487 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
26488 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
26489 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
26490 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
26491 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
26493 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
26494 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
26495 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
26496 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
26497 order. Fixes bug 2798.
26498 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
26499 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
26500 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
26501 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
26502 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
26503 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
26507 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
26508 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
26509 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
26510 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
26512 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
26513 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
26514 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
26515 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
26516 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
26517 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
26518 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
26519 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
26520 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
26521 Implements ticket 3264.
26522 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
26523 implements ticket 3439.
26525 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
26526 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
26527 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
26528 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
26529 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
26530 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
26531 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
26532 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
26533 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
26534 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
26535 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
26536 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
26537 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
26538 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
26539 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
26540 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
26541 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
26542 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
26543 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
26544 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
26545 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
26546 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
26547 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
26548 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
26549 fails. Spotted by coverity.
26550 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
26551 present. Found by coverity.
26552 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
26553 a directory cache that provides them.
26555 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26556 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
26557 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
26558 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
26559 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
26560 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
26562 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
26563 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
26564 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
26565 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
26566 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
26567 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26568 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
26569 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
26571 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26572 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
26573 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
26574 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
26575 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
26576 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
26577 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
26579 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
26583 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
26584 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
26585 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
26588 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
26589 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
26590 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
26591 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
26594 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
26595 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
26596 discovered by katmagic.
26597 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
26598 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
26599 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
26600 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26601 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
26602 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
26603 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
26604 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26605 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
26606 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
26607 fixes part of bug 3465.
26608 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
26609 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
26613 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26616 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
26617 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
26618 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
26619 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
26620 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
26623 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
26624 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
26625 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
26626 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
26627 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
26630 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
26631 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
26632 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
26633 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
26634 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
26635 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
26638 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
26639 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
26640 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
26641 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26642 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
26643 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
26644 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
26645 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
26646 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
26647 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
26648 fixes part of bug 3407.
26649 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
26650 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
26651 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
26652 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
26653 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
26654 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
26655 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
26656 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
26657 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
26658 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
26660 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
26661 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
26662 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
26663 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
26666 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26668 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26669 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
26670 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
26672 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
26674 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
26677 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
26678 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
26679 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
26680 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
26681 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
26682 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
26686 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
26687 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
26688 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
26689 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26690 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
26691 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
26692 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
26694 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
26695 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26696 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
26697 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
26698 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
26699 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
26700 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
26701 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
26702 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
26703 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
26704 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
26705 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
26706 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
26707 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
26708 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
26709 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
26710 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
26711 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
26712 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
26716 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
26717 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
26718 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
26719 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
26720 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
26721 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
26722 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
26723 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
26724 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
26728 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
26729 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
26730 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
26732 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
26734 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
26735 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
26736 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
26737 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
26738 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26739 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
26740 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
26741 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
26742 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
26744 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
26745 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
26746 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
26747 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
26748 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
26749 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
26751 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
26752 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
26754 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
26755 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
26756 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
26759 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
26760 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
26761 Resolves ticket 3252.
26762 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
26763 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
26764 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
26765 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
26766 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
26767 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
26770 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
26771 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
26774 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
26775 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
26776 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
26779 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
26780 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26781 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
26782 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
26783 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
26786 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
26787 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26788 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
26789 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
26790 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
26791 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
26792 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
26793 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
26794 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
26798 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
26799 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
26800 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
26801 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
26802 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
26804 o Security/privacy fixes:
26805 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
26806 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
26807 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
26808 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
26809 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
26810 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
26811 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
26812 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
26813 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
26814 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
26815 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
26816 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
26817 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
26818 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
26819 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26822 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
26823 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
26824 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
26825 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
26826 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
26827 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
26828 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
26829 part of ticket 3076.
26830 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
26831 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
26832 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
26836 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
26837 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
26838 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
26839 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
26840 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
26841 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
26842 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
26843 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
26845 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
26846 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
26847 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
26848 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
26849 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
26850 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
26851 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
26852 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
26853 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
26854 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
26855 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
26856 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
26857 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26860 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
26861 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
26862 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
26863 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
26864 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
26865 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
26866 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
26868 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
26869 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
26870 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
26871 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
26872 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
26873 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
26874 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
26875 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
26876 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
26877 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
26878 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
26879 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
26880 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
26881 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
26882 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
26883 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
26885 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
26886 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
26888 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
26889 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
26891 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
26892 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
26894 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
26895 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
26896 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26898 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
26899 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
26900 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
26901 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
26902 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26903 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
26904 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
26905 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
26906 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
26907 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
26908 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
26910 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
26911 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
26912 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
26913 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
26914 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
26915 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
26916 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
26917 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
26918 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
26919 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
26920 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26921 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
26922 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
26925 o Removed features:
26926 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
26927 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
26928 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
26932 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
26933 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
26934 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
26935 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
26936 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
26937 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
26939 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
26940 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
26941 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
26944 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
26945 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
26946 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
26947 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
26948 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
26949 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
26950 zero-copy transports where available.
26951 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
26952 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
26953 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
26954 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
26955 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
26956 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
26957 debug it as it breaks.
26958 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
26959 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
26960 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
26961 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
26962 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
26963 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
26964 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
26965 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
26966 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
26967 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
26968 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
26969 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
26970 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
26971 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
26972 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
26973 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
26974 PortForwarding option.
26975 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
26976 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
26977 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
26978 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
26979 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
26980 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
26981 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
26984 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
26985 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
26986 Implements enhancement 1668.
26987 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
26989 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
26990 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
26991 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
26992 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
26993 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
26994 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
26995 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
26997 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
26998 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
26999 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
27000 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
27001 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
27002 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
27003 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
27005 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
27006 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
27007 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
27008 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
27009 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
27010 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
27011 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
27013 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
27014 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
27015 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
27016 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
27017 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27018 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
27019 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
27020 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
27021 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
27022 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
27023 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
27024 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
27025 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
27026 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
27027 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
27030 o Minor features (controller):
27031 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
27032 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
27033 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
27034 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
27035 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
27036 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
27037 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
27040 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
27041 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
27042 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
27043 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
27044 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
27045 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
27046 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
27047 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
27049 o Minor packaging issues:
27050 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
27051 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
27053 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27054 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
27055 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
27056 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
27057 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
27058 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
27059 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
27060 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
27061 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
27062 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
27063 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
27064 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
27065 our library structure used to force them to link it.
27067 o Removed features:
27068 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
27069 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
27070 are no longer in use as servers.
27072 o Documentation fixes:
27073 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
27074 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
27075 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
27079 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
27080 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
27081 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
27082 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
27083 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
27084 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
27085 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
27086 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
27087 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
27088 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
27091 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
27092 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
27093 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
27094 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
27095 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
27096 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
27097 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
27098 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
27099 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
27100 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27101 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
27102 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
27103 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27104 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
27105 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
27106 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
27108 o Security and stability fixes:
27109 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
27110 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
27111 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
27112 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
27113 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
27114 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
27115 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
27116 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
27117 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
27118 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
27119 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
27120 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
27121 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27122 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
27123 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
27124 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
27127 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
27128 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
27129 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
27130 contributions to the network.
27132 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
27133 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
27134 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
27135 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
27136 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
27137 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
27138 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
27139 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
27140 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
27141 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
27142 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
27143 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
27144 connections to directory servers.
27145 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
27146 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
27147 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
27148 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
27149 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
27150 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
27151 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
27152 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
27153 information, or fetch directory information.
27154 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
27155 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
27156 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
27157 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
27158 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
27159 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
27160 unless you really want your Tor to break.
27161 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
27162 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
27163 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
27164 - When StrictNodes is 1:
27165 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
27166 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
27167 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
27168 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
27169 reachability self-tests.
27170 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
27171 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
27172 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
27173 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
27174 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27175 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
27176 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
27178 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
27179 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27180 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
27181 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
27182 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
27183 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27184 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
27185 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
27186 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
27187 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
27188 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
27191 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
27192 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
27193 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
27194 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
27195 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
27196 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
27197 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
27198 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
27199 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
27200 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
27201 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
27202 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27203 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
27204 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
27205 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
27206 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
27207 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
27209 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
27210 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
27211 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
27212 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
27213 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27214 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
27215 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27216 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
27217 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
27218 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
27219 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
27220 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
27221 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
27222 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
27223 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
27224 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27225 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
27226 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
27227 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
27228 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
27231 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
27232 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
27233 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
27234 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
27235 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
27236 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
27237 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
27238 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
27239 Required by fix for bug 3000.
27240 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
27241 by fix for bug 3000.
27242 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
27243 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
27245 o Code simplification and refactoring:
27246 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
27247 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
27248 send a body too). Since only server versions before
27249 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
27250 keep the workaround in place.
27251 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
27252 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
27253 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
27254 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
27255 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
27256 want to do it differently.
27257 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
27258 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
27259 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
27260 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
27261 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
27265 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
27266 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
27267 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
27268 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
27269 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
27272 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
27273 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
27274 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
27275 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
27276 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
27278 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
27279 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
27280 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
27281 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
27282 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
27283 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
27284 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
27285 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
27286 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
27287 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
27288 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
27289 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
27292 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
27293 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
27294 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
27295 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
27296 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
27297 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
27298 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
27300 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
27301 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
27302 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
27303 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
27304 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
27305 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
27306 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
27307 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
27308 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
27309 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
27310 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
27311 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
27312 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
27313 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
27314 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
27315 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
27316 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
27317 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
27318 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
27319 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
27320 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
27321 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
27322 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27325 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
27326 networkstatus vote.
27327 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
27328 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
27329 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
27331 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
27332 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
27333 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
27334 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
27336 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
27337 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
27338 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
27339 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27342 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
27343 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
27345 o Documentation changes:
27346 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
27347 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
27349 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
27352 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
27353 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
27354 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
27355 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
27356 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
27357 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
27360 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27361 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
27362 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
27363 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
27364 the rest of bug 1074.
27365 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
27366 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
27367 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27368 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
27369 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
27370 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
27371 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27372 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
27373 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
27374 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
27375 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
27376 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
27377 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
27378 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27381 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
27382 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
27383 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
27384 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
27385 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
27386 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
27387 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
27388 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
27389 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
27390 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
27391 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
27392 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
27393 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
27394 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
27396 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
27397 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
27398 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
27399 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
27400 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
27401 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
27403 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
27404 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
27405 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
27406 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
27407 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
27408 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
27409 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
27410 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
27411 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
27412 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
27413 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
27414 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
27415 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
27416 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
27417 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
27418 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
27419 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
27420 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
27421 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
27422 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
27423 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
27424 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
27425 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
27426 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27427 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
27428 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
27430 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
27431 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
27432 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
27433 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
27434 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
27435 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
27437 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
27438 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
27439 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
27441 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
27442 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
27443 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
27444 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
27445 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
27446 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
27447 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
27448 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
27449 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
27450 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
27451 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
27452 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
27453 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
27457 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
27458 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
27459 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
27460 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
27461 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
27462 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
27463 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
27464 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
27465 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
27466 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
27467 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
27468 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
27470 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27472 o Minor features (log subsystem):
27473 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
27474 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
27475 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
27477 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
27478 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
27480 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
27481 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
27482 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
27485 o Packaging changes:
27486 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
27487 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
27488 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
27491 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
27492 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
27493 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
27494 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
27495 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
27496 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
27499 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27500 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
27501 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
27502 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
27503 the rest of bug 1074.
27504 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
27505 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27506 Found by "piebeer".
27507 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
27508 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
27509 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
27510 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
27511 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
27512 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
27513 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27516 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
27518 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27521 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
27522 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
27523 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
27524 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
27525 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
27526 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
27527 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
27528 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
27529 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
27530 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
27531 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27533 o Packaging changes:
27534 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
27535 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
27536 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
27537 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
27538 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
27539 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
27542 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
27543 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
27544 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
27545 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
27546 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
27547 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
27550 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
27551 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27552 Found by "piebeer".
27553 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
27554 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
27555 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
27556 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
27559 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
27561 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
27562 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
27563 Implements ticket 2432.
27566 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
27567 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
27568 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
27571 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
27572 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
27573 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
27574 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
27575 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
27576 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
27578 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
27579 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
27580 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
27581 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
27583 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
27584 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
27585 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
27586 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
27587 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
27588 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
27589 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
27590 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
27592 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
27593 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
27594 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
27595 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
27596 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
27597 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
27598 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
27599 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
27600 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
27601 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
27602 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
27603 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
27604 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
27605 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
27608 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
27609 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
27610 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
27611 bug reported by doorss.
27612 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
27613 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
27614 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27615 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
27616 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
27618 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
27619 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
27620 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
27621 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
27622 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27624 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
27625 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27626 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
27628 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
27629 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
27630 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
27631 Automake 1.7 or later.
27632 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
27633 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
27634 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
27635 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
27637 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27638 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
27639 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
27642 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27643 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
27644 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
27645 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
27647 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27648 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
27649 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
27650 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
27651 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
27652 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
27653 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
27654 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
27655 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
27657 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
27658 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
27659 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
27662 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27663 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
27664 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
27665 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
27666 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
27667 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
27668 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
27669 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
27670 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
27671 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
27672 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
27673 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
27674 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
27676 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27677 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
27681 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
27682 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
27683 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
27684 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
27685 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
27687 o Major bugfixes (security):
27688 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
27689 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
27690 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
27692 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
27693 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
27694 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
27695 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
27696 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
27697 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
27698 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
27699 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
27701 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27702 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
27703 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
27704 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
27705 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
27706 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
27707 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
27708 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
27709 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
27710 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
27711 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
27712 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
27713 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
27714 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
27717 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27718 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
27719 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
27720 bug reported by doorss.
27721 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
27722 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
27723 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27724 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
27725 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
27727 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
27728 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
27729 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
27730 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
27731 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27732 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
27733 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
27734 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
27735 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
27738 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27739 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
27742 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
27743 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
27744 Automake 1.7 or later.
27747 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
27748 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
27749 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
27750 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
27751 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
27754 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
27755 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
27756 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
27757 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
27758 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
27759 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
27760 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
27761 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
27762 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
27763 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
27764 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
27766 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
27767 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
27768 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
27769 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
27771 o Directory authority changes:
27772 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
27775 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
27776 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
27777 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
27778 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
27779 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
27780 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
27781 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
27782 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
27783 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
27786 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27787 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
27788 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
27789 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
27790 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
27791 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
27792 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
27793 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
27794 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
27795 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
27799 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
27800 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
27801 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
27802 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
27806 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
27807 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
27808 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
27809 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
27811 o Directory authority changes:
27812 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
27815 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27818 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
27819 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
27820 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
27821 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
27822 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
27825 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
27826 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
27827 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
27828 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
27829 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27830 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
27831 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
27832 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
27833 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
27834 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27835 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
27836 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27837 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
27838 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
27839 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
27840 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
27841 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
27842 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27843 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
27844 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
27845 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
27846 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
27847 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
27850 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
27851 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
27852 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
27853 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
27855 o New directory authorities:
27856 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
27860 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
27861 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
27862 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
27864 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
27865 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27866 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
27867 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
27868 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
27869 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
27871 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
27872 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
27873 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
27876 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
27877 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
27878 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
27879 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
27880 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
27881 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
27882 Patch from mingw-san.
27885 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
27886 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
27887 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
27888 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
27889 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
27890 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
27893 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
27894 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
27895 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
27898 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
27899 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
27900 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
27901 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
27902 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27905 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
27906 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
27907 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
27908 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
27909 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
27910 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
27911 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
27912 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
27913 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
27916 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
27917 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
27918 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
27919 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
27920 to a stable release.
27923 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
27924 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
27925 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
27926 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27927 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
27928 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
27929 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
27930 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
27931 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27932 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
27933 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27934 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
27935 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
27936 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
27937 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
27938 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
27939 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
27940 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
27941 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
27942 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
27943 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
27944 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
27945 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
27946 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
27947 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
27948 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
27949 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
27950 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
27951 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
27952 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
27953 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
27956 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
27957 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
27958 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
27959 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
27960 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
27961 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
27962 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
27963 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
27964 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
27965 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
27966 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
27967 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
27968 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
27969 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27970 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
27971 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
27972 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
27974 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
27975 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27976 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
27977 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
27978 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
27980 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
27981 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
27982 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
27983 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
27986 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
27987 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
27988 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
27989 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
27990 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
27991 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
27992 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
27993 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27995 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27996 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
27997 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
27998 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
27999 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
28000 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
28001 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
28002 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
28003 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
28004 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
28005 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
28006 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
28007 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
28008 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
28009 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
28012 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
28013 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
28014 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
28015 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
28016 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
28017 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
28018 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
28019 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
28020 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
28023 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
28024 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
28025 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
28026 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
28027 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
28029 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
28030 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
28031 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
28032 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
28033 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
28034 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
28035 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
28036 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
28037 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
28038 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
28039 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
28040 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
28041 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
28042 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
28044 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28045 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
28047 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
28048 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
28049 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
28050 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
28051 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
28052 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
28053 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
28054 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
28055 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
28056 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
28057 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
28058 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
28059 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
28060 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
28061 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
28062 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
28063 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
28064 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28066 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
28067 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
28068 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
28069 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
28070 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
28071 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
28072 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
28073 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
28074 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
28075 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
28076 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
28077 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
28078 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
28080 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
28081 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
28082 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
28083 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28086 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
28087 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
28088 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
28089 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
28090 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
28091 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
28092 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
28093 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
28094 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
28095 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
28096 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
28097 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
28098 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
28099 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
28100 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
28101 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
28102 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
28103 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
28104 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
28107 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28108 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
28109 based on the time during which we were active and not in
28110 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
28111 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
28112 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
28113 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
28114 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
28116 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28117 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
28118 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
28119 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
28120 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
28121 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
28122 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
28123 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
28124 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
28125 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
28128 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
28129 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
28130 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
28131 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
28133 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
28134 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
28135 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
28136 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
28137 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
28138 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
28139 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
28140 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
28141 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
28142 the longest-lived bug prize.
28143 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
28144 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
28145 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
28146 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
28147 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
28148 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
28150 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
28151 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
28152 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
28153 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
28154 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
28155 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
28159 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28160 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
28161 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
28162 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
28163 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
28164 got suppressed since the last warning.
28165 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
28166 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
28167 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
28168 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
28169 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
28170 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
28171 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
28172 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
28173 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
28174 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
28175 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
28176 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
28177 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
28178 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
28179 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
28180 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
28181 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
28182 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
28183 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
28185 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
28186 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
28187 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
28189 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28190 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
28191 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
28192 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
28193 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
28194 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
28195 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
28196 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
28197 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
28198 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
28199 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
28200 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
28201 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
28202 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
28203 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
28205 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
28206 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
28207 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
28208 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
28209 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
28210 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28211 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
28213 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
28214 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
28215 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
28216 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
28217 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
28220 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28221 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
28222 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
28223 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
28224 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
28225 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
28226 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
28227 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
28228 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
28229 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
28230 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
28231 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
28232 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
28233 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
28234 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
28235 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
28236 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
28237 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
28240 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
28243 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
28244 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
28245 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
28246 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
28247 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
28251 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
28252 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
28253 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
28254 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
28255 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
28256 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
28257 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
28258 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
28259 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
28260 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
28261 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
28262 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
28263 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
28264 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
28265 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
28266 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
28267 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
28270 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
28271 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
28272 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
28273 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
28274 they first get the Guard flag.
28275 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
28279 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28280 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
28281 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
28282 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
28283 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
28284 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
28285 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
28286 Patch from mingw-san.
28287 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
28288 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
28290 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
28291 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
28292 Implements enhancement 1790.
28294 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28295 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
28296 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
28297 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
28298 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
28299 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
28300 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
28301 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
28302 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
28303 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
28304 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
28305 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
28306 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
28307 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
28308 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
28309 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
28310 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
28311 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
28312 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
28313 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
28315 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
28316 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
28317 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
28318 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
28319 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
28320 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
28321 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
28322 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
28323 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
28324 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
28325 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
28326 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
28327 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
28329 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
28330 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
28331 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
28332 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
28333 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
28334 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
28336 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28337 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
28338 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
28339 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
28340 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
28341 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
28342 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
28343 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28344 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
28345 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
28346 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
28347 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
28349 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
28350 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
28351 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
28352 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
28353 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
28354 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
28355 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
28357 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
28359 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
28360 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
28361 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
28362 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
28363 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
28364 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
28366 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28367 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
28368 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
28369 structures and defines in or.h for now.
28370 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
28371 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
28372 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
28373 statistics code to be more easily tested.
28374 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
28375 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
28376 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
28379 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
28380 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
28381 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
28382 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
28383 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
28384 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
28388 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
28389 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
28390 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
28391 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
28392 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
28393 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
28394 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
28395 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
28396 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
28397 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
28398 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
28399 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
28400 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
28402 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
28403 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
28404 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
28405 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
28406 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
28407 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
28408 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
28409 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
28410 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
28411 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
28412 can be controlled by the consensus.
28415 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
28416 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
28417 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
28418 more accurate data for many African countries.
28419 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
28420 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
28421 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
28422 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
28423 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
28424 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
28425 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
28426 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
28427 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
28428 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
28429 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
28430 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
28432 o New directory authorities:
28433 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
28437 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
28438 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
28439 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
28440 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
28441 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
28442 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
28443 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
28444 what should go in a patch.
28445 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
28446 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
28447 over our stored history.
28448 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
28449 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
28450 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
28451 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
28452 file. Fixes bug 1296.
28453 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
28454 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
28455 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
28459 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
28461 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
28462 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
28463 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
28464 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
28465 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
28466 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
28467 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
28468 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
28469 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
28470 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
28471 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
28472 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28473 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
28474 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
28475 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
28476 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
28477 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
28478 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
28479 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
28480 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
28481 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
28482 two-hop circuits are actually created.
28483 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
28484 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28485 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
28486 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28489 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
28490 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
28491 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
28492 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
28493 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
28495 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
28496 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
28499 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
28500 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
28501 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
28502 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
28503 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
28504 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
28505 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
28506 their directory fetches over TLS).
28507 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
28508 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
28509 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
28510 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
28511 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
28512 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
28513 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
28514 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
28517 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
28518 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
28522 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
28523 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28524 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
28525 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
28526 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
28527 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
28528 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28531 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
28532 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
28533 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
28534 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
28535 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
28538 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
28539 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
28540 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
28541 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
28542 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
28543 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
28544 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
28545 their directory fetches over TLS).
28548 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
28549 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
28551 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
28552 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
28553 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
28554 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
28555 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
28556 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
28557 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
28558 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
28559 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
28560 hour of their uptime.
28563 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
28564 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
28565 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
28569 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
28570 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
28571 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
28572 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
28573 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
28574 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
28576 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
28577 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
28578 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
28580 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
28581 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
28585 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
28586 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
28587 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
28591 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
28592 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
28593 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
28596 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
28597 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
28598 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
28599 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
28600 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
28601 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
28602 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
28603 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
28604 about the option without breaking older ones.
28605 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
28606 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
28607 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
28608 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
28611 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
28612 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
28613 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
28614 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
28616 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
28617 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
28618 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
28621 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
28622 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
28624 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
28625 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
28626 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
28627 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
28628 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
28629 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
28630 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28631 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
28632 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
28633 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
28634 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
28637 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
28638 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28639 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
28640 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
28641 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
28642 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
28643 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28646 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
28647 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
28648 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
28649 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
28650 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
28651 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
28654 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
28655 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
28656 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
28657 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
28659 o Major features (performance):
28660 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
28661 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
28662 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
28663 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
28664 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
28665 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
28666 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
28668 o Minor features (performance):
28669 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
28670 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
28671 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
28672 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
28673 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
28677 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
28678 speeds up the build considerably.
28680 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28681 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
28682 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28683 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
28684 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28685 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
28686 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
28687 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28689 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
28690 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
28691 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
28693 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
28694 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
28695 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
28696 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
28698 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28699 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
28700 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
28701 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
28702 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
28703 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
28706 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
28707 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
28708 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
28710 o Directory authority changes:
28711 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
28712 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
28713 service directory authority) from the list.
28716 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
28717 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
28718 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
28719 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
28720 libraries in a security patch.
28721 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
28722 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
28723 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
28724 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
28726 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
28727 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
28728 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
28729 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
28730 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
28731 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
28732 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
28735 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
28736 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
28737 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
28738 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
28739 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
28740 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
28741 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
28742 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
28743 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
28744 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
28745 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
28746 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
28747 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
28749 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
28750 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
28751 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
28752 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
28753 control-spec.txt said they were.
28754 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
28755 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
28756 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
28757 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
28758 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28760 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28761 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
28762 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
28763 produce nicer HTML.
28764 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
28765 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
28766 iPhone SDK versions.
28767 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
28768 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
28769 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
28770 projects directory in svn.
28771 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
28772 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
28773 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
28774 high latency links.
28777 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
28778 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
28779 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
28781 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
28782 to the circuit build timeout.
28783 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
28784 arguments we do not recognize.
28785 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
28786 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
28787 open() without checking it.
28790 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
28791 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
28792 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
28793 several minor potential security bugs.
28796 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
28797 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
28798 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
28799 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
28800 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
28801 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
28802 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
28805 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
28806 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
28808 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
28809 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
28810 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
28811 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
28815 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
28816 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
28820 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
28821 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
28822 customized patches to run/build.
28825 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
28826 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
28827 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
28830 o Major bugfixes (performance):
28831 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
28832 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
28833 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
28834 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
28835 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
28836 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
28837 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
28840 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
28841 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
28842 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
28843 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
28844 libraries in a security patch.
28845 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
28846 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
28847 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
28848 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
28851 o Directory authority changes:
28852 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
28853 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
28854 service directory authority) from the list.
28857 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
28858 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
28861 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
28862 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
28863 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
28864 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
28865 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
28868 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
28869 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
28870 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
28874 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
28875 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
28876 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
28877 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
28878 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28881 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
28882 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
28883 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
28887 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
28888 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
28889 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
28890 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
28891 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
28893 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
28894 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
28896 o Directory authority changes:
28897 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
28900 o Major features (performance):
28901 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
28902 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
28903 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
28904 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
28905 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
28906 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
28907 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
28908 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
28909 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
28910 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
28911 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
28912 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
28913 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
28915 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
28916 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
28917 but never per-conn write limits.
28918 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
28919 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
28920 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
28921 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
28923 o Major features (relay selection options):
28924 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
28925 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
28926 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
28927 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
28928 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
28929 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
28930 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
28932 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
28933 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
28935 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
28936 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
28937 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
28938 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
28939 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
28940 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
28941 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
28942 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
28943 the network changes.
28946 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
28947 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
28948 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28951 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
28952 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
28953 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
28954 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
28955 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
28956 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
28957 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
28958 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
28959 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
28960 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
28961 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
28962 generated while acting as a relay.
28963 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
28964 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
28965 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
28966 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
28967 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
28968 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
28970 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
28971 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
28972 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
28973 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
28974 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
28975 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
28978 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
28979 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
28980 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
28982 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
28983 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
28984 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
28986 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
28987 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
28989 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
28990 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
28991 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
28993 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
28994 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
28997 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28998 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
28999 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
29000 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
29001 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
29002 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
29003 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
29004 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
29005 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
29007 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
29010 o Removed features:
29011 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
29012 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
29013 hidden service usage.
29016 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
29017 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
29018 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
29019 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
29020 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
29022 o Directory authority changes:
29023 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
29027 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
29028 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
29029 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29032 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
29033 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
29034 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
29035 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
29036 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
29039 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
29040 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
29041 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
29042 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
29043 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
29044 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
29045 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
29048 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
29049 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
29050 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29051 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
29052 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
29053 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
29055 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
29056 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
29059 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
29060 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
29061 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
29062 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
29063 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
29064 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
29067 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
29068 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
29069 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
29071 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
29072 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
29073 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
29074 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
29075 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
29076 download consensus + microdescriptors".
29077 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
29078 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
29079 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
29080 hash algorithm in the future.
29081 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
29082 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
29083 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
29084 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
29085 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
29086 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
29087 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
29088 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
29089 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
29092 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
29093 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
29094 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
29095 won't work unless we say we are.
29098 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
29099 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
29100 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
29101 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
29102 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
29103 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
29104 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
29105 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
29106 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29107 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
29108 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
29109 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
29110 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
29111 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
29112 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
29113 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
29114 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
29115 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
29116 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
29117 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
29118 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
29119 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
29122 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
29123 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
29124 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
29125 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
29127 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
29128 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
29130 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
29131 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
29132 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
29133 in the Vidalia Settings window.
29136 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
29137 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
29138 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
29139 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
29140 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
29142 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
29143 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
29145 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
29146 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
29147 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
29150 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
29151 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
29152 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
29154 o New directory authorities:
29155 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
29157 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
29160 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
29161 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
29163 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
29164 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
29165 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29166 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
29167 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
29168 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
29169 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29170 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29171 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
29172 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
29173 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
29174 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
29175 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
29176 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
29177 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
29178 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
29179 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
29181 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
29182 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
29183 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
29185 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
29186 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
29190 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
29191 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
29192 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
29193 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
29194 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
29197 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
29198 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
29201 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
29203 o Directory authorities:
29204 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
29208 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
29209 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
29210 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
29211 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
29212 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
29215 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
29216 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
29217 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
29218 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
29220 o New directory authorities:
29221 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
29224 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
29225 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
29226 SSL handshake issues.
29227 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
29228 during the TLS handshake.
29229 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
29230 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
29231 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
29232 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
29233 none of which are very big.
29236 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
29238 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
29239 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29240 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
29241 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
29242 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29243 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
29244 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
29245 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
29248 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29249 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
29250 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
29251 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
29252 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
29255 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
29256 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29259 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
29260 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
29263 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
29264 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
29265 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29268 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
29269 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
29270 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
29271 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
29272 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
29273 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
29276 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
29277 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
29278 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
29279 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
29280 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
29281 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
29282 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
29283 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
29284 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
29285 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
29286 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
29287 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
29288 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
29289 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
29290 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
29291 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
29292 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
29293 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
29296 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
29297 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
29301 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
29302 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
29303 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29304 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
29305 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
29306 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
29307 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29308 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
29309 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
29310 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
29311 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29312 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29313 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
29314 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
29315 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
29316 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
29317 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
29318 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
29319 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
29320 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
29321 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
29323 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
29324 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
29325 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
29326 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29327 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
29328 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
29330 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
29331 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
29332 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
29335 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
29336 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
29337 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
29338 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
29339 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
29340 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
29343 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
29344 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
29345 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
29346 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
29347 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
29350 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
29351 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
29352 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
29355 o New directory authorities:
29356 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
29360 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
29361 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
29362 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
29363 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
29364 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
29367 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
29368 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
29369 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
29370 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
29371 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
29374 o New options for gathering stats safely:
29375 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
29376 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
29377 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
29378 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
29379 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
29380 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
29381 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
29382 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29383 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
29385 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
29386 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
29387 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29388 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
29390 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
29391 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
29392 their extra-info documents.
29395 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
29396 source files Tor was built with.
29397 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
29398 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
29399 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
29400 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
29401 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
29402 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
29404 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
29405 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
29406 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
29407 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
29408 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
29410 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
29411 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
29414 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
29415 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
29416 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
29417 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
29418 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
29420 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
29421 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
29423 o Deprecated and removed features:
29424 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
29425 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
29426 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
29427 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
29428 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
29429 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
29430 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
29431 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
29433 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
29434 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
29435 via application-level web tricks.
29437 o Packaging changes:
29438 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
29439 installer bundles. See
29440 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
29441 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
29442 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
29443 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
29444 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
29445 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
29446 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
29447 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
29448 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
29449 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
29450 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
29451 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
29454 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
29455 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
29456 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
29459 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
29460 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
29461 part of patch provided by "optimist".
29464 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
29465 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
29466 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
29467 and confuse fewer users.
29470 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
29471 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
29472 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
29473 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
29474 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
29475 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
29476 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
29479 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
29480 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
29481 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
29482 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
29483 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
29484 other features and bug fixes.
29487 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
29490 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
29491 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
29492 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
29493 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
29494 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
29497 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
29498 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
29499 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
29500 failure message (oops).
29503 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
29504 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
29505 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
29506 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
29510 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
29511 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
29512 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
29513 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
29514 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
29515 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
29516 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29517 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
29518 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
29519 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
29520 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
29521 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
29522 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
29523 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
29524 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
29527 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
29528 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
29529 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
29530 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
29531 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
29532 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
29533 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
29534 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
29535 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
29536 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
29537 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
29538 Workaround for bug 1024.
29539 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
29543 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
29544 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
29545 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
29548 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
29550 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
29551 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
29552 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
29553 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
29554 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29557 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
29558 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
29559 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
29560 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
29561 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
29562 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
29563 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
29564 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
29565 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
29566 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
29569 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
29570 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
29571 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
29572 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
29573 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
29574 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
29575 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
29576 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
29579 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
29580 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
29581 a bunch of minor bugs.
29584 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
29585 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
29586 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29588 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
29589 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
29590 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
29591 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
29593 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
29597 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
29598 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
29599 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
29601 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29602 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
29604 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
29605 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
29607 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
29608 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
29609 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
29610 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
29611 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
29612 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
29613 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
29614 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
29616 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
29617 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
29618 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
29620 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
29621 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
29622 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
29623 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
29624 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
29628 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
29629 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
29630 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
29631 of more minor bugs.
29633 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29634 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
29635 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
29636 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
29638 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29639 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
29640 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
29641 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29642 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
29643 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
29644 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
29645 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
29646 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
29647 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
29648 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
29649 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29650 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
29651 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
29652 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
29653 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
29654 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
29656 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
29657 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
29658 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
29659 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29661 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
29662 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
29663 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
29666 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
29667 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
29668 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
29669 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
29670 addresses to fall out of the directory.
29673 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
29674 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
29675 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
29676 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
29678 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
29679 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
29680 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
29681 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
29682 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
29683 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
29684 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
29685 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
29686 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
29687 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
29688 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
29689 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
29690 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
29691 patch by Sebastian.
29692 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
29693 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
29696 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
29697 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
29698 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
29699 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
29700 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
29701 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
29703 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
29704 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
29705 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
29706 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
29707 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
29709 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
29712 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
29713 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
29715 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
29716 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
29717 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29718 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29719 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
29720 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
29722 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
29723 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29724 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
29725 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
29726 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
29727 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29728 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
29729 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
29730 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
29731 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
29732 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
29733 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
29737 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
29738 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
29739 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
29742 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
29743 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
29744 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29746 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
29747 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
29748 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
29749 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
29750 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
29751 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
29752 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
29753 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
29754 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
29755 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
29756 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
29757 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29758 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
29759 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
29760 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
29761 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
29762 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
29763 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
29764 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
29765 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
29766 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
29767 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
29768 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
29769 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
29770 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
29771 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
29773 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
29774 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
29775 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
29776 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
29777 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
29778 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
29779 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
29780 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
29781 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
29782 of 0. Suggested by lark.
29784 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
29785 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
29786 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
29787 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
29788 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
29791 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
29793 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
29794 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
29795 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
29796 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
29799 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
29800 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
29801 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
29802 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
29803 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
29805 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
29806 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
29807 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
29808 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
29811 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
29812 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29813 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
29814 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
29815 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
29816 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
29817 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
29818 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
29821 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
29822 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
29823 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
29824 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
29827 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
29828 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
29829 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
29830 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
29831 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
29832 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
29835 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
29836 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29837 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
29838 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
29839 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
29840 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29843 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
29844 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
29845 reported by Matt Edman.
29846 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
29848 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
29849 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
29850 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
29851 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
29853 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
29854 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29855 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
29856 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29857 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
29858 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
29859 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
29860 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
29861 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
29862 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
29863 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
29864 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
29865 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
29866 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
29867 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
29868 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29869 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
29870 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
29871 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29874 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
29875 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
29876 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
29877 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
29880 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
29881 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
29882 the letter of C99's alias rules.
29885 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
29886 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
29887 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
29888 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
29890 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
29891 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
29892 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
29895 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
29896 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
29899 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
29900 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
29901 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
29902 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
29903 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
29904 reported by "wood".
29905 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
29906 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
29907 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
29908 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
29909 identify a connection.
29910 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
29911 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
29912 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
29913 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
29914 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
29915 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
29916 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
29917 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
29918 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
29919 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
29921 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
29922 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
29923 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
29924 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
29925 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
29926 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
29927 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
29930 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
29931 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
29933 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
29934 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
29935 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
29936 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
29937 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
29938 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
29939 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29940 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
29942 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
29943 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
29944 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
29945 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
29946 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
29947 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
29948 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
29949 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
29950 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
29951 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
29952 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
29953 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
29954 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
29955 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
29956 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
29957 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
29958 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
29959 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
29960 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
29961 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
29962 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
29963 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
29964 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
29965 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
29966 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
29967 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
29968 840. Patch from rovv.
29969 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
29970 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
29971 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
29973 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
29974 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
29975 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
29976 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
29977 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
29978 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
29979 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
29981 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
29982 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
29983 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
29986 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
29987 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
29989 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
29990 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
29991 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
29992 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
29993 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
29994 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
29995 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
29996 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
29997 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
29999 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
30001 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
30002 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
30006 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
30007 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
30008 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
30009 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
30010 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
30011 have had some time to upgrade.)
30014 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
30015 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
30018 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
30019 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
30020 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
30021 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
30022 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
30025 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
30026 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
30028 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
30029 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
30030 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
30031 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
30032 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
30033 entirely. Patch from coderman.
30036 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
30037 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
30038 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
30039 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
30040 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
30041 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30042 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
30046 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
30047 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
30048 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
30049 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
30050 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
30051 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
30052 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
30055 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
30056 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
30057 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
30058 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
30059 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
30061 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
30062 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
30063 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
30064 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
30065 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
30066 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
30067 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
30068 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
30069 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
30070 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
30074 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
30075 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
30076 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
30078 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
30079 without support for deprecated functions.
30080 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
30082 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30083 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
30084 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
30085 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
30086 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30087 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
30088 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
30089 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
30090 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
30091 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
30092 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
30093 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
30094 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
30095 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
30096 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
30097 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
30098 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
30099 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
30100 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
30101 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
30102 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
30103 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
30104 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
30106 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
30107 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
30108 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
30109 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
30110 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
30111 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
30113 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
30114 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
30115 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
30116 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
30117 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
30119 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
30120 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
30121 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
30123 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
30124 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
30127 o Deprecated and removed features:
30128 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
30129 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
30130 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
30133 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30134 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
30135 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
30136 with log.h on Android.
30137 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
30138 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
30141 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
30142 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
30144 o New directory authorities:
30145 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
30149 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
30150 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
30151 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
30152 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
30153 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
30154 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30157 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
30158 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
30159 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
30160 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
30161 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
30162 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
30163 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
30164 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
30165 reported by "wood".
30166 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
30167 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
30168 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
30169 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
30172 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
30173 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
30175 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
30176 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
30177 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
30178 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
30179 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
30180 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
30181 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
30182 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
30183 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
30184 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
30185 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
30186 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
30187 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
30188 Implements proposal 148.
30189 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
30190 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
30191 system to do it for us.
30192 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
30193 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
30194 this fix will be slightly helpful.
30195 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
30196 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
30197 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
30198 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
30199 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
30200 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
30201 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
30202 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
30203 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
30206 o Minor features (controller):
30207 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
30208 been fetched and validated.
30209 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
30210 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
30211 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
30212 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
30213 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
30214 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
30217 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
30218 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30219 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
30220 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
30221 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
30223 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
30224 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
30225 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
30226 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
30227 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
30228 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
30229 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
30230 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
30231 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
30233 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
30234 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
30235 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
30236 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
30237 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
30238 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
30239 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
30240 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
30242 o Deprecated and removed features:
30243 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
30245 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
30246 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
30247 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
30249 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30250 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
30251 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
30253 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
30254 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
30255 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
30256 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
30257 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
30258 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
30261 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
30262 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
30263 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
30264 fixes a variety of other issues.
30267 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
30268 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
30269 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
30270 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
30273 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
30274 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
30275 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
30276 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
30279 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
30280 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30281 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
30285 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
30287 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
30288 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
30289 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
30290 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
30291 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
30292 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
30293 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
30295 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
30296 rest, and don't automatically fail.
30297 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
30298 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30299 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
30300 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
30302 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
30303 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
30304 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
30305 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
30306 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
30307 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
30308 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
30309 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
30310 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
30311 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
30313 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
30317 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
30318 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
30319 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
30321 o Minor features (controller):
30322 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
30326 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
30327 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
30328 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
30329 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
30330 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
30331 variety of other issues.
30334 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
30335 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
30336 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
30337 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
30338 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
30339 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
30340 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
30341 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
30342 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
30343 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
30344 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
30345 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
30348 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
30349 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30351 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
30352 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
30353 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
30354 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
30355 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
30356 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
30357 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30358 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
30359 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
30360 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
30361 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
30362 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
30363 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
30364 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
30365 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
30369 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
30370 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
30371 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
30372 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
30373 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
30374 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
30375 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
30376 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
30377 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
30378 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
30379 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
30380 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
30381 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
30382 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
30383 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
30384 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
30385 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
30386 list. It has been gone for many months.
30387 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
30388 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
30389 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
30392 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30393 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
30394 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
30397 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
30398 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
30399 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
30400 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
30401 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
30402 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
30403 variety of other issues.
30406 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
30407 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
30408 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
30409 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
30410 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
30411 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
30412 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
30413 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
30414 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
30415 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
30416 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
30417 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
30418 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
30419 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
30422 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
30423 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
30424 Suggested by Lucky Green.
30425 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
30426 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
30427 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
30428 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
30429 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
30430 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
30432 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
30433 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
30435 o Hidden service performance improvements:
30436 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
30437 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
30438 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
30439 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
30440 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
30441 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
30442 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
30443 faster after restart.
30446 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
30447 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
30448 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
30449 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
30450 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
30451 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
30452 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
30453 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
30454 840. Patch from rovv.
30455 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
30456 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
30457 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
30458 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
30459 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
30460 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
30461 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
30462 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
30463 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
30465 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
30466 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
30467 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
30468 have already been marked for close.
30469 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
30470 introduction points.
30471 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
30472 memory performance during directory parsing.
30473 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
30474 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
30475 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
30476 because of a pending download.
30479 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
30480 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
30481 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
30482 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30485 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
30486 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
30487 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
30488 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
30489 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
30490 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
30491 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
30492 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
30493 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
30494 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
30495 lookups more reliable.
30496 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
30497 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
30498 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
30499 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
30500 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
30501 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
30502 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
30505 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
30506 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
30507 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30508 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
30509 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
30510 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
30511 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
30512 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
30513 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
30514 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
30515 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
30517 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
30518 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
30519 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
30520 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
30521 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
30522 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30523 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
30524 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
30525 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30528 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
30529 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
30530 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
30531 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
30532 locked down these days.
30533 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
30534 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
30535 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
30536 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
30537 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
30539 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
30540 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
30541 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
30542 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
30543 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
30544 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
30545 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
30546 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
30547 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
30548 people find host:port too confusing.
30549 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
30550 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
30551 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
30554 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30556 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
30557 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
30558 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
30559 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
30560 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
30562 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
30563 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
30564 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
30565 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
30566 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
30567 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
30568 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
30569 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
30570 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
30571 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
30572 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
30573 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
30575 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
30576 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
30577 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
30578 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
30579 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
30580 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
30581 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30582 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
30583 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
30585 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
30586 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
30587 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
30588 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
30589 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
30590 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30591 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
30592 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
30593 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
30594 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
30595 bug 820, reported by seeess.
30596 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
30597 list. It has been gone for many months.
30599 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30600 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
30601 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
30602 actual mistakes we're making here.
30603 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
30604 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
30605 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
30606 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
30609 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
30610 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
30611 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
30612 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30615 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
30616 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
30617 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
30618 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
30619 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
30620 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
30622 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
30623 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
30624 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
30625 pointed out by rovv.
30628 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
30629 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30630 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
30631 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30632 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
30633 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
30634 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
30635 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
30636 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
30637 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30638 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
30639 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
30640 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
30641 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30642 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
30643 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
30644 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
30645 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
30646 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
30647 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
30648 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
30651 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
30652 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
30653 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
30654 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
30655 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
30656 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
30657 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30660 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
30662 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
30663 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
30664 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
30665 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
30666 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
30667 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
30668 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
30670 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
30671 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
30672 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
30673 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
30674 known descriptor before building circuits.
30676 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
30677 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
30678 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
30679 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
30680 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
30681 identify a connection.
30682 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
30683 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
30684 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
30686 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
30687 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
30688 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
30689 pointed out by rovv.
30692 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
30693 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30694 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
30695 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
30696 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
30697 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30698 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
30699 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30700 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
30701 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
30702 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
30703 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
30704 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
30705 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
30706 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30709 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
30710 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
30711 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
30712 answer sections match.
30713 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
30714 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
30717 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
30718 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30721 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
30722 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
30723 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
30725 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
30726 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
30727 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30730 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
30731 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
30732 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
30733 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
30736 o Removed features:
30737 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
30738 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
30741 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
30742 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
30743 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
30744 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
30745 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
30746 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
30748 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
30749 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
30750 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
30753 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
30754 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
30755 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
30756 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
30757 be sent using an "early" cell.
30760 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
30761 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
30762 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
30763 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
30764 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
30765 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
30766 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
30769 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
30770 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
30771 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
30772 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
30773 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
30774 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
30775 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
30776 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
30777 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
30778 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
30779 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
30780 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
30781 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
30782 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
30783 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
30784 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
30787 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
30788 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
30789 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
30790 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
30791 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
30792 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
30793 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
30794 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
30795 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
30797 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
30798 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
30799 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
30800 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
30801 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
30804 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30805 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
30806 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
30807 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
30809 o Removed features:
30810 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
30811 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
30815 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
30817 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
30818 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
30819 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
30822 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
30823 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
30824 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
30827 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
30828 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
30829 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
30830 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
30831 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30832 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
30833 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
30834 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
30835 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30836 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
30837 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
30838 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
30839 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
30840 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
30841 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
30842 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
30843 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
30844 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
30845 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
30846 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
30847 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
30848 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
30849 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
30852 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
30853 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
30855 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
30856 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
30857 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
30858 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
30859 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
30860 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
30861 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
30863 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
30864 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
30865 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
30866 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
30867 found by Geoff Goodell.
30870 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
30871 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
30872 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
30873 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
30874 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
30875 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
30878 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
30879 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
30880 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
30883 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
30884 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
30885 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
30886 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
30887 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30888 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
30889 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
30890 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
30891 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30892 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
30893 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
30894 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
30895 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
30896 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
30899 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
30900 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
30901 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
30903 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
30904 fingerprints with or without space.
30905 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
30906 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
30907 partway through and wants to catch up.
30908 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
30909 state to start out in.
30912 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
30913 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
30914 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30915 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
30916 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
30919 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
30920 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
30921 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
30922 some of the connection attempts fail.
30923 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
30924 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
30925 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
30926 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
30927 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
30928 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
30930 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
30931 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
30932 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
30935 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
30936 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
30937 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
30938 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
30939 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
30940 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
30941 and adds a variety of smaller features.
30944 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
30945 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
30946 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
30947 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
30949 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
30950 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
30951 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
30952 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
30954 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
30955 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
30956 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
30957 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
30958 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
30959 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
30960 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
30963 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
30964 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
30965 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
30966 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
30967 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
30969 o Memory fixes and improvements:
30970 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
30971 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
30972 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
30973 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
30974 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
30975 on a typical directory cache.
30976 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
30977 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
30978 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
30979 and may reduce fragmentation.
30980 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
30981 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
30982 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
30984 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
30985 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
30986 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
30988 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
30989 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
30993 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
30994 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
30995 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
30996 done that for a long time.
30997 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
30998 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
30999 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
31000 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
31003 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
31004 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
31005 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
31006 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
31007 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
31008 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
31010 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
31011 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
31012 output to messages of warning and error severity.
31013 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
31014 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
31015 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
31016 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
31017 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
31018 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
31019 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
31020 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
31021 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
31022 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
31023 directory requests we should expect to see.
31024 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
31026 - Lots of new unit tests.
31027 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
31028 two parallel lists in lockstep.
31031 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
31032 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
31033 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31036 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
31037 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
31038 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
31039 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
31040 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
31041 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
31042 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
31045 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
31046 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
31047 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
31051 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
31052 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
31053 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
31056 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
31057 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
31058 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
31060 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
31061 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
31063 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
31064 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
31065 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
31066 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
31067 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31068 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
31069 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
31071 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
31072 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
31073 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
31074 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
31075 - Fix compile on Windows.
31078 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
31079 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
31080 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
31081 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
31082 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
31083 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
31084 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
31087 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
31088 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
31091 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
31092 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
31093 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
31094 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
31096 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
31097 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
31098 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
31101 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
31102 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
31103 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
31104 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
31108 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
31109 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
31110 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
31111 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
31113 o Major security fixes:
31114 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
31115 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
31116 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
31117 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
31118 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
31121 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
31122 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31125 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
31126 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
31129 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
31130 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
31133 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
31134 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
31135 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
31138 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
31139 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31142 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
31143 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
31144 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
31145 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
31146 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
31148 o New directory authorities:
31149 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
31150 it has been down for months.
31151 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
31155 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
31156 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
31158 o Minor features (security):
31159 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
31160 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
31161 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
31164 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
31165 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
31166 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
31167 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
31168 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
31169 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
31170 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
31171 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
31172 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31174 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
31175 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
31176 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31177 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
31178 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
31179 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
31180 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31181 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
31182 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
31184 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
31185 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
31186 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
31187 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
31188 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
31189 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
31190 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
31191 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
31192 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
31193 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
31194 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31195 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
31196 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
31197 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
31198 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
31199 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
31200 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
31201 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
31202 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
31205 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
31206 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31207 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
31208 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
31211 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
31212 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
31213 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
31214 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
31217 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
31218 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31219 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
31220 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
31221 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
31224 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
31225 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
31226 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
31227 certain censored countries by default again.
31230 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
31231 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
31232 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
31233 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
31234 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
31235 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
31236 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
31237 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
31239 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
31240 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
31241 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
31242 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
31243 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
31244 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
31245 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
31246 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
31247 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
31248 a directory. Fix from lodger.
31250 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31251 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
31252 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
31253 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
31254 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
31255 RelayBandwidth* values.
31256 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
31257 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
31258 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
31259 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
31260 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
31261 get_interface_address6().
31262 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
31263 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
31264 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
31266 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
31267 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
31268 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
31269 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31270 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
31271 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
31272 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31273 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
31274 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
31275 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31278 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
31279 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
31280 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
31283 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
31284 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31285 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
31286 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
31287 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
31290 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
31291 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
31292 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
31293 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
31294 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
31295 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
31296 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
31297 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
31298 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
31301 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
31302 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
31303 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
31304 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
31307 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
31308 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31309 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
31310 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
31311 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
31312 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
31313 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
31316 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
31317 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
31318 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
31319 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
31320 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
31321 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
31322 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
31324 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
31325 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
31326 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
31327 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
31328 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
31331 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
31332 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
31333 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
31334 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
31335 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
31336 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
31337 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31338 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
31339 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
31340 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
31341 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
31342 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
31343 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
31344 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
31345 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
31346 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31347 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
31348 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31349 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31350 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
31351 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
31352 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
31353 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
31354 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
31355 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
31356 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
31358 o Minor features (performance):
31359 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
31361 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
31362 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
31363 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
31364 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
31365 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
31366 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
31367 non-system include paths.
31368 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
31369 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
31372 o Minor features (other):
31373 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
31375 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
31376 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
31377 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
31380 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
31381 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
31382 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
31383 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
31385 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
31386 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
31387 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
31388 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
31389 Should fix bug 537.
31390 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
31391 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
31392 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31393 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
31394 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31396 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31397 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
31398 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
31399 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
31400 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
31401 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
31402 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
31403 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
31404 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
31405 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
31406 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
31407 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
31408 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
31409 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
31410 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
31411 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31412 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
31413 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
31414 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
31415 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
31416 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
31417 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
31418 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
31419 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
31420 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
31423 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31424 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
31425 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
31429 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
31430 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
31431 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
31432 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
31433 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
31436 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
31437 Tor's x509 certificates.
31440 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
31441 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
31442 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31443 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
31444 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
31445 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31447 o Minor features (security):
31448 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
31449 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
31451 o Minor features (directory authority):
31452 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
31453 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
31454 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
31455 bandwidthburst values.
31457 o Minor features (controller):
31458 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
31459 processes from running us out of memory.
31461 o Minor features (misc):
31462 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
31463 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
31464 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
31465 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
31467 o Deprecated features (controller):
31468 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
31469 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
31470 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
31473 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
31474 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
31476 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
31477 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
31478 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31479 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
31480 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
31481 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31482 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
31483 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
31485 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
31486 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31487 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
31488 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31489 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
31490 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
31491 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
31492 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
31494 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
31495 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
31496 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
31497 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
31498 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31499 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
31500 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31501 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
31502 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31503 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
31504 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
31505 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31507 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31508 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
31510 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
31511 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
31512 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
31513 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
31514 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
31515 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
31518 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
31519 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
31520 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
31521 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
31522 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
31524 o New directory authorities:
31525 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
31529 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
31530 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
31531 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
31532 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
31533 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
31534 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
31535 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
31536 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
31540 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
31541 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
31542 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
31543 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
31544 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
31545 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
31546 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
31547 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
31548 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
31549 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
31552 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
31553 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
31554 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
31555 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
31559 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
31560 the request isn't encrypted.
31561 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
31562 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
31563 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
31564 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
31565 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
31568 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
31569 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
31572 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
31575 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
31576 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
31577 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
31579 o New directory authorities:
31580 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
31583 o Major performance improvements:
31584 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
31585 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
31586 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
31587 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
31588 memory fragmentation.
31591 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
31592 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
31593 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
31594 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
31595 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
31596 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
31597 bodies when they receive them.
31598 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
31599 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
31600 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
31602 o Minor performance improvements:
31603 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
31604 of them were actually distinct.
31605 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
31606 interested in a given message.
31609 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
31610 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
31611 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
31612 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
31613 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
31614 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
31615 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
31616 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
31617 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
31618 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
31619 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
31621 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
31622 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
31623 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
31624 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
31625 this country" and "1 person from this country".
31626 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
31627 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
31628 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
31629 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
31630 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
31632 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
31633 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
31634 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
31636 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
31637 but client versions are not.
31638 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
31639 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
31641 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
31642 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
31643 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
31644 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
31645 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
31647 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
31648 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
31649 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
31652 o Minor features (controller):
31653 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
31654 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
31655 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
31656 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
31658 o Minor features (directory authorities):
31659 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
31660 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
31661 running a test network on a single host.
31662 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
31663 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
31665 o Minor features (bridges):
31666 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
31667 unencrypted connections.
31669 o Minor features (other):
31670 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
31671 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
31672 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
31673 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
31676 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
31677 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
31678 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
31679 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
31682 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
31683 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
31684 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
31685 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
31686 on network address.
31689 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
31690 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
31691 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
31692 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
31693 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
31694 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
31695 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
31696 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
31697 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
31698 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
31699 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
31700 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
31703 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
31704 rebuild our server descriptor.
31705 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
31706 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
31707 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
31708 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
31709 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
31710 nonstandard integer types.
31711 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
31712 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
31713 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
31714 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
31715 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
31717 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
31718 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
31719 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
31720 when they receive them.
31721 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
31722 This includes some 64-bit systems.
31723 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
31724 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
31725 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
31726 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
31727 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
31728 router_get_by_hexdigest().
31729 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
31730 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
31734 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
31735 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
31736 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31739 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
31740 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
31741 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
31742 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
31743 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
31744 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
31745 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
31746 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31749 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
31750 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
31751 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
31752 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
31754 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
31755 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
31758 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
31759 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
31762 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
31764 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
31765 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
31767 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
31768 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
31769 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
31770 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31771 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
31772 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
31773 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
31774 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31775 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
31776 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
31780 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
31781 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
31782 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
31785 - Make the unit tests build again.
31786 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
31787 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
31788 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
31789 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
31790 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
31791 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31792 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
31793 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
31794 the next one as a duplicate.
31797 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
31798 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
31799 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
31800 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
31803 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
31804 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
31805 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
31808 o New directory authorities:
31809 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
31813 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
31814 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
31815 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
31816 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
31817 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
31818 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
31819 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
31821 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
31822 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
31824 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
31825 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
31826 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
31827 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
31828 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
31829 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
31831 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
31832 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
31833 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31834 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
31835 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
31836 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31839 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
31840 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
31841 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
31842 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
31843 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
31844 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
31845 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
31846 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
31847 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
31848 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
31849 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
31850 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
31851 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
31852 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
31853 where Tor is blocked.
31854 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
31855 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
31856 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
31857 to a file periodically.
31858 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
31859 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
31860 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
31864 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
31865 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
31866 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
31867 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
31868 in the relevant networkstatus document.
31869 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
31870 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
31871 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31872 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
31873 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
31874 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
31875 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
31876 by Karsten Loesing.
31877 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
31878 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
31879 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
31880 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
31881 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
31882 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31883 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
31884 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
31885 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
31886 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31887 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
31888 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
31889 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
31890 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31891 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
31892 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
31893 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
31894 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
31895 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
31896 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31897 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31898 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
31899 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31900 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
31901 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
31902 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31903 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
31904 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31907 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
31908 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
31909 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
31910 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
31911 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
31912 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
31913 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
31914 even if your DirPort isn't on.
31915 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
31916 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
31917 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
31919 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
31920 multiple controller passwords.
31921 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
31922 router based on the router's purpose.
31923 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
31924 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
31925 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
31926 the approved-routers file.
31929 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
31930 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
31931 well as a few minor bugs.
31934 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
31935 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
31936 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
31938 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
31939 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
31940 rebuild our server descriptor.
31942 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31943 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
31944 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
31945 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
31946 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
31947 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
31948 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
31949 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
31950 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
31951 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
31953 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
31954 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
31955 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
31956 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
31957 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
31958 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
31959 then be flexible about families.
31962 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
31963 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
31964 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
31968 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
31969 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
31970 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
31971 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
31972 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
31975 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
31976 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
31977 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
31978 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
31979 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31982 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
31983 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
31985 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
31986 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
31987 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
31988 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
31989 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
31990 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
31991 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31993 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
31994 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
31995 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
31996 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
31999 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
32000 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
32003 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
32004 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
32005 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32008 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
32009 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
32010 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
32011 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
32012 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
32013 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
32014 addresses many more minor issues.
32016 o New directory authorities:
32017 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
32020 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
32021 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
32022 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
32023 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
32025 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
32026 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
32027 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
32028 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
32029 and are reaching it.
32030 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
32031 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
32032 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
32033 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
32034 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
32035 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
32038 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
32039 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
32041 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
32042 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
32043 no longer work for clients.
32044 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
32045 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
32047 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
32048 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
32049 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
32050 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
32051 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
32052 enough directory information to build a circuit.
32053 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
32054 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
32055 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
32056 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
32057 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
32058 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
32060 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
32061 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
32062 requests for all of them.
32063 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
32065 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
32066 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
32067 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
32069 o New requirements:
32070 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
32071 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
32075 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
32076 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
32077 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
32078 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
32079 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
32080 networkstatuses that we already have.
32081 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
32082 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
32083 we start knowing some directory caches.
32084 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
32085 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
32086 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
32087 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
32088 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
32089 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
32090 Good in combination with --hash-password.
32091 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
32092 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
32094 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
32095 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
32096 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
32098 o Minor features (bridges):
32099 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
32100 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
32101 back to trying the bridge directly.
32102 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
32103 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
32105 o Minor features (controller):
32106 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
32107 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
32108 report the value as a "minimum skew."
32111 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
32112 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
32116 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
32117 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
32118 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
32119 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
32120 reported by tup and ioerror.
32121 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
32122 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
32124 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
32125 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
32127 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
32128 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
32129 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
32131 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
32132 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32133 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
32134 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32135 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
32136 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32137 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
32139 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
32140 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
32141 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32143 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
32144 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
32145 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
32146 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
32147 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
32150 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
32151 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
32152 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
32153 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
32154 lists for a few hours each day.
32156 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32157 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
32158 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
32159 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
32160 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
32161 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
32162 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
32163 rend_process_relay_cell().
32165 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
32166 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
32167 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
32168 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
32169 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
32170 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
32171 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
32172 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
32174 o Major bugfixes (other):
32175 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
32176 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
32177 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
32178 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
32179 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
32180 circuit cannibalization).
32181 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
32182 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
32183 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
32184 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
32185 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
32186 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
32189 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
32190 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
32192 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
32193 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
32194 absent. Resolves bug 467.
32195 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
32196 a way to trigger this remotely.)
32197 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
32198 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
32199 were reporting the dir port.)
32200 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
32201 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
32202 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
32203 the future. Fixes bug 434.
32204 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
32206 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
32207 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
32208 the onion key from getting rotated.
32209 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
32210 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
32211 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
32212 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
32213 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
32214 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
32215 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32216 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
32217 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
32220 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
32221 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
32222 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
32223 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
32224 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
32225 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
32227 o Major features (directory system):
32228 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
32229 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
32230 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
32231 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
32232 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
32233 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
32234 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
32235 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
32236 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
32237 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
32238 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
32239 Partially implements proposal 122.
32240 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
32241 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
32244 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
32245 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
32246 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
32247 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
32249 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
32250 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
32251 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
32252 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
32253 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
32254 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32255 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
32256 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
32257 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32259 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
32260 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
32262 - Allow certificates to include an address.
32263 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
32264 and download operations.
32265 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
32266 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
32267 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
32268 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
32269 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
32270 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
32272 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
32273 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
32276 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
32277 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
32278 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
32279 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
32281 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
32282 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
32283 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
32285 o Minor features (performance):
32286 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
32287 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
32288 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
32289 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
32290 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
32291 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
32292 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
32295 o Minor features (compilation):
32296 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
32297 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
32299 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
32300 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
32301 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
32302 stick around indefinitely.
32303 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
32305 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
32306 v3 directory authority.
32307 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
32308 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
32310 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
32311 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
32312 "moria on moria:9031."
32313 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
32314 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
32315 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
32316 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
32317 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
32318 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
32319 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
32320 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
32322 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
32323 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
32324 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
32325 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
32326 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
32327 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
32328 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
32329 downloads than for other types.
32331 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
32332 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
32334 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
32335 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
32336 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32338 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32339 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
32340 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32341 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
32342 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
32343 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
32344 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
32345 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
32347 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
32348 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
32349 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
32350 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
32351 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32352 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
32353 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
32354 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32355 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
32356 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
32357 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
32359 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
32360 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
32363 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32364 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
32365 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
32366 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
32367 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
32368 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
32369 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
32370 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
32371 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
32372 so that they all take the same named flags.
32375 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
32376 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
32377 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
32380 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
32381 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
32382 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
32383 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
32384 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
32385 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
32387 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
32388 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
32389 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
32390 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
32391 annotations along with descriptors.
32392 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
32393 source, and its purpose.
32394 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
32396 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
32397 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
32398 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
32399 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
32402 o Major features (directory authorities):
32403 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
32405 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
32406 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
32407 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
32408 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
32409 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
32410 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
32412 o Major features (v3 directory system):
32413 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
32414 and download the descriptors listed in them.
32415 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
32416 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
32417 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
32419 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32420 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
32421 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
32422 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
32425 o Major bugfixes (performance):
32426 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
32427 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
32428 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
32429 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
32431 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
32432 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
32433 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
32434 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
32435 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
32436 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
32438 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
32439 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
32441 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
32442 certificate is requested.
32443 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
32444 certificate requests.
32446 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
32447 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
32448 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
32449 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
32452 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32453 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
32454 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
32455 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32457 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
32458 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
32460 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
32461 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
32462 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32463 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
32464 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
32465 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
32466 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
32467 downloads more sensible.
32468 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
32469 another when serving certificates.
32471 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
32472 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
32473 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
32474 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
32476 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
32477 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32478 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
32480 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
32481 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
32483 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
32484 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
32485 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
32486 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
32487 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32489 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
32490 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
32491 WARN-severity events.
32492 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
32493 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
32494 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
32496 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
32497 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
32498 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
32500 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
32501 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
32502 circuit cannibalization).
32504 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32505 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
32506 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
32507 new module, networkstatus.c.
32508 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
32509 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
32510 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
32511 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
32512 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
32513 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
32514 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
32515 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
32516 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
32518 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
32520 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
32521 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
32524 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
32525 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
32526 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
32527 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
32529 o New directory authorities:
32530 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
32531 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
32533 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32534 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
32535 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32537 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
32538 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
32539 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
32540 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
32541 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
32542 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
32543 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
32544 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
32545 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
32546 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
32547 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32549 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
32550 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
32551 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
32552 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
32553 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
32554 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
32555 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
32556 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
32557 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
32559 o Minor features (security):
32560 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
32561 address maps to an internal address space.
32562 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
32563 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
32565 o Minor features (guard nodes):
32566 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
32567 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
32568 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
32569 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
32571 o Minor features (speed):
32572 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
32573 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
32574 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
32575 on big-endian hosts.)
32577 o Minor features (controller):
32578 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
32579 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
32580 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
32581 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
32584 o Removed features:
32585 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
32586 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
32587 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
32588 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
32589 implementation of proposal 104.
32590 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
32591 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
32592 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
32593 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
32594 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
32595 patch from Karsten Loesing.
32596 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
32597 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
32600 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
32601 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
32602 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32603 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
32604 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32605 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
32606 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32607 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
32608 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
32609 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32610 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
32611 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
32612 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
32613 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32614 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
32615 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
32616 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
32617 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32618 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
32619 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
32621 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32622 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
32623 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
32625 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
32626 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
32627 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
32628 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
32631 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
32632 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
32633 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
32634 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
32635 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
32638 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
32639 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
32642 o Major bugfixes (security):
32643 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
32644 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
32645 become more of a headache than it's worth.
32647 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
32648 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
32649 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
32651 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
32652 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
32653 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
32654 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
32655 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
32656 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
32658 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
32659 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
32660 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
32661 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
32662 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
32664 o Minor features (controller):
32665 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
32666 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
32667 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
32668 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
32670 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
32671 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
32672 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
32673 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
32674 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
32675 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
32676 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
32677 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
32679 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
32680 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
32681 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
32682 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
32683 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
32684 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
32685 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
32686 if we ran off the end of the list.
32687 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
32688 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
32689 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
32690 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
32691 every time we change any piece of our config.
32692 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
32693 encourage people using them to stop.
32694 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
32696 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
32697 servers to choose a circuit.
32698 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
32699 unparseable piece of it.
32702 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
32703 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
32704 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
32705 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
32708 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
32709 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
32710 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
32711 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
32712 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
32714 o New directory authorities:
32715 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
32718 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
32719 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
32720 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
32721 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
32723 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
32724 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
32725 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
32727 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
32728 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
32729 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
32730 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
32731 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
32732 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
32734 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
32735 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
32736 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32739 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
32740 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
32741 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
32742 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
32746 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
32747 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
32748 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
32749 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
32751 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
32752 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
32754 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
32755 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
32756 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
32757 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
32758 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
32759 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
32760 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32761 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
32762 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32763 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
32766 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
32767 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
32768 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
32769 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
32770 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
32771 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
32773 o Removed features:
32774 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
32775 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
32776 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
32777 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
32780 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
32781 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
32782 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
32783 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
32784 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
32787 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
32788 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
32789 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
32790 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
32791 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
32792 reported by lodger.
32794 o Minor features (directory servers):
32795 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
32796 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
32798 o Minor features (directory voting):
32799 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
32802 o Minor features (security):
32803 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
32804 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
32805 encourage people using them to stop.
32807 o Minor features (controller):
32808 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
32809 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
32810 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
32811 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
32812 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
32813 cookie authentication file, and config option
32814 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
32816 o Minor features (unit testing):
32817 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
32818 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
32819 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
32820 logging for the unit tests.
32822 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
32823 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
32824 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
32825 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
32826 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
32827 every time we change any piece of our config.
32828 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
32829 the future. Fixes bug 434.
32830 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
32832 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
32833 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
32834 the onion key from getting rotated.
32835 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
32836 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
32837 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
32840 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32841 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
32842 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
32844 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
32845 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
32846 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
32847 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
32850 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
32851 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
32852 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
32853 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
32854 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
32855 TorK, etc. Or worse.
32857 o Major security fixes:
32858 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
32859 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
32862 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
32863 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
32864 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
32865 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
32867 o Major security fixes:
32868 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
32869 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
32871 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
32872 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
32875 o Minor features (performance):
32876 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
32877 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
32878 performance-intensive.
32879 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
32880 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
32881 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
32882 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
32883 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
32884 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
32888 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
32889 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
32890 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
32891 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
32895 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
32896 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
32897 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
32898 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
32899 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
32901 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
32902 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
32903 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
32904 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
32906 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
32907 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
32908 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
32909 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
32910 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
32912 o Major features (experimental):
32913 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
32914 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
32915 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
32916 handling before it's ready for use.
32919 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
32920 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
32921 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
32922 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
32923 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
32924 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
32926 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
32927 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
32928 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
32929 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
32930 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
32932 o Major bugfixes (directory):
32933 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
32934 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
32936 o Minor features (controller):
32937 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
32938 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
32939 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
32940 from Robert Hogan.)
32941 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
32942 from Robert Hogan.)
32943 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
32944 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
32946 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
32947 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
32948 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
32949 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
32950 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
32951 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
32952 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
32955 o Minor features (misc):
32956 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
32958 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
32959 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
32960 the authority identity key.
32961 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
32963 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
32964 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
32965 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
32968 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
32969 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
32970 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
32971 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
32972 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
32973 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
32974 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
32975 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
32977 o Performance improvements:
32978 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
32980 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
32981 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
32984 o Deprecated and removed features:
32985 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
32986 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
32987 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
32988 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
32990 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
32991 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
32992 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
32993 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
32994 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
32995 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
32996 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
32997 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
32998 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
33001 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
33002 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
33003 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
33004 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
33005 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
33007 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
33008 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
33011 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33012 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
33013 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
33014 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
33015 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
33016 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
33017 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
33018 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
33019 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
33022 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
33023 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
33024 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
33025 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
33027 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
33028 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
33030 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33031 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
33032 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
33033 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
33034 routerlist while inserting a new router.
33035 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
33036 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
33038 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
33039 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
33040 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
33042 o Major bugfixes (security):
33043 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
33045 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
33046 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
33047 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
33048 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
33049 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
33050 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
33051 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
33052 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
33053 guard list unless we need to.
33055 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
33056 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
33057 don't get overused as guards.
33059 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
33060 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
33061 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
33062 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
33063 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
33065 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
33066 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
33067 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
33070 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33071 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
33072 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
33073 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
33074 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
33075 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
33076 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
33077 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
33080 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
33081 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
33082 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
33083 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
33085 o Minor features (directory):
33086 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
33087 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
33088 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
33089 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
33091 o Minor build issues:
33092 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
33093 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
33094 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
33095 in the tarball, not as "x".
33098 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
33099 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
33100 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
33101 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
33102 forward on a lot of fronts.
33104 o Major features, server usability:
33105 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
33106 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
33107 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
33108 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
33110 o Major features, client usability:
33111 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
33112 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
33113 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
33114 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
33115 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
33116 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
33117 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
33118 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
33120 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
33121 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
33122 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
33123 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
33124 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
33125 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
33127 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
33128 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
33129 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
33131 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
33132 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
33133 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
33134 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
33135 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
33137 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
33138 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
33139 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
33140 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
33142 o Major features, other:
33143 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
33144 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
33145 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
33146 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
33147 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
33150 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
33151 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
33152 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
33155 o Minor fixes (resource management):
33156 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
33157 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
33158 our allocated connection limit.
33159 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
33160 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
33161 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
33162 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
33163 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
33165 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
33166 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
33167 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
33169 o Minor features (build):
33170 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
33171 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
33172 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
33173 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
33175 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
33176 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
33177 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
33178 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
33179 Use this version consistently in log messages.
33181 o Minor features (logging):
33182 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
33183 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
33184 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
33185 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
33186 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
33189 o Minor features (directory system):
33190 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
33191 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
33192 not to serve V2 directory information.
33193 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
33194 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
33195 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
33197 o Minor features (controller):
33198 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
33199 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
33201 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
33202 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
33203 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
33204 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
33205 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
33206 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
33208 o Minor features (hidden services):
33209 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
33210 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
33211 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
33212 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
33214 o Minor features (other):
33216 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
33217 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
33218 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
33219 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
33220 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
33221 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
33222 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
33223 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
33224 longer a completely silly thing to do.
33225 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
33226 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
33227 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
33228 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
33230 o Removed features:
33231 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
33232 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
33233 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
33234 back an error and close the connection.
33235 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
33236 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
33239 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
33240 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
33241 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
33242 makes the log messages nicer.
33243 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
33244 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
33245 partial results on small file reads.
33247 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
33248 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
33249 more often than they are allowed to appear.
33250 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
33251 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
33253 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
33254 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
33255 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
33256 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
33258 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33259 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
33260 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
33261 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
33262 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
33263 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
33264 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
33265 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
33266 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
33267 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
33268 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
33270 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
33271 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
33272 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
33274 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
33275 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
33276 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
33277 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
33279 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33280 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
33281 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
33283 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
33284 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
33287 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33288 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
33289 implicit in other procedure arguments.
33290 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
33291 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
33292 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
33293 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
33294 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
33295 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
33296 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
33297 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
33298 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
33301 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
33302 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
33303 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
33304 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
33306 o Directory authority changes:
33307 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
33308 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
33309 or use hidden services.
33311 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33312 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
33313 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
33314 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
33315 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
33316 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
33317 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
33318 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
33319 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
33322 o Major bugfixes (security):
33323 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
33324 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
33325 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
33327 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
33328 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
33329 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
33330 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
33331 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
33332 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
33333 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
33334 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
33335 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
33336 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
33339 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
33340 purpose=controller.
33341 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
33342 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
33344 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
33345 having a hard time downloading.
33346 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
33347 partial results on small file reads.
33348 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
33349 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
33350 the gaps in the store get very large.
33353 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
33354 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
33356 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
33357 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
33360 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
33361 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
33362 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
33363 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
33364 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
33365 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
33367 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
33368 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
33369 free speech on the Internet.
33372 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
33373 get one we don't recognize.
33374 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
33375 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
33378 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
33380 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
33381 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
33382 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
33383 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
33386 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
33387 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
33390 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
33391 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
33392 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
33393 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
33394 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
33395 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
33396 ask for GUARDS too.
33399 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
33400 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
33401 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
33402 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
33403 on Win98 and friends again.
33405 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33406 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
33407 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
33410 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
33411 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
33412 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
33413 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
33414 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
33415 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
33416 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
33417 and maybe also bug 397.)
33419 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
33420 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
33421 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
33423 o Minor bugfixes (server):
33424 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
33427 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
33428 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
33429 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
33430 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
33431 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
33433 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
33434 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
33435 load on authorities.
33437 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33438 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
33439 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
33440 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
33442 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
33444 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
33445 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
33446 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
33447 the last of bug 326.)
33448 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
33449 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
33453 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
33454 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33455 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
33456 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
33457 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
33458 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
33459 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
33461 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
33462 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
33464 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33465 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
33466 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
33468 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
33469 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
33470 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
33472 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33473 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
33474 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
33475 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
33477 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
33478 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
33480 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
33481 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
33482 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
33485 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33486 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
33487 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
33488 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
33489 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
33490 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
33491 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
33492 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
33493 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
33494 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
33495 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
33496 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
33497 other than file-not-found.
33498 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
33499 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
33500 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
33501 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
33502 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
33503 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
33504 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
33505 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
33506 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
33507 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
33508 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
33509 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
33510 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
33511 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
33512 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
33514 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
33516 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
33517 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
33519 o Minor features (controller):
33520 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
33521 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
33522 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
33524 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
33525 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
33526 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
33527 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
33528 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
33529 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
33530 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
33531 connected or resolved cell.
33533 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
33534 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
33535 some profiles, but not others.)
33536 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
33537 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
33538 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
33541 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
33543 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
33544 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
33545 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
33546 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
33547 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
33548 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
33549 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
33550 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
33551 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
33552 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
33553 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
33554 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
33555 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
33556 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
33557 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
33559 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
33562 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
33563 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
33564 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
33565 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
33566 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
33567 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
33568 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
33570 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
33571 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
33572 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
33573 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
33574 buckets go absurdly negative.
33575 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
33576 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
33579 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
33580 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
33581 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
33582 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
33583 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
33584 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
33585 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
33586 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
33589 o Major bugfixes (other):
33590 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
33591 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
33592 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
33593 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
33595 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
33597 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
33598 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
33600 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
33601 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
33602 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
33603 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
33604 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
33605 to wait for 0.2.0.)
33607 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
33608 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
33609 possible memory-stomping bugs.
33610 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
33611 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
33613 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
33614 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
33615 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
33616 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
33617 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
33618 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
33620 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33621 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
33622 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
33623 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
33625 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
33626 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
33627 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
33628 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
33629 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
33630 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
33631 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
33632 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
33633 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
33634 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
33635 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
33636 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
33637 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
33639 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
33640 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
33641 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
33642 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
33643 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
33644 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
33645 to the resulting address.
33648 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
33649 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
33650 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
33651 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
33654 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
33655 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
33657 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
33658 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
33659 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
33660 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
33661 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
33662 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
33663 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
33664 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
33665 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
33666 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
33667 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
33668 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
33669 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
33670 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
33671 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
33672 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
33673 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
33676 o Minor features (controller):
33677 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
33678 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
33679 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
33680 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
33681 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
33682 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
33683 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
33687 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
33689 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
33690 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
33691 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
33692 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
33693 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
33694 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
33697 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
33698 weren't planning to resolve.
33699 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
33700 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
33701 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
33702 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
33703 the controller from learning about current events.
33705 o Minor features (more controller status events):
33706 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
33707 learn when our address changes.
33708 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
33709 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
33710 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
33711 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
33713 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
33714 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
33715 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
33716 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
33717 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
33718 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
33719 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
33720 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
33721 are accepted by a directory.
33722 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
33723 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
33724 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
33725 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
33726 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
33728 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
33729 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
33730 about changes to DNS server status.
33732 o Minor features (directory):
33733 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
33734 too much load to the exit nodes.
33737 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
33739 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
33740 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
33741 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
33742 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
33743 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
33745 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
33746 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
33747 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
33749 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
33750 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
33751 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
33752 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
33753 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
33754 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
33755 config options if you like.
33757 o Minor features (config and docs):
33758 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
33759 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
33760 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
33761 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
33762 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
33764 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
33765 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
33766 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
33767 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
33768 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
33770 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
33771 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
33772 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
33773 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
33774 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
33775 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
33776 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
33777 documentation: "make check-docs".
33778 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
33779 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
33781 o Minor features (DNS):
33782 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
33783 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
33784 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
33785 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
33786 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
33787 our tests for DNS hijacking.
33789 o Minor features (directory):
33790 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
33791 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
33792 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
33793 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
33794 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
33795 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
33796 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
33797 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
33798 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
33799 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
33800 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
33801 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
33802 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
33803 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
33804 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
33805 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
33806 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
33807 for the thing we're trying to download.
33808 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
33809 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
33810 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
33812 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
33813 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
33814 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
33817 o Minor features (controller):
33818 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
33819 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
33821 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
33822 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
33823 entry guard status as it changes.
33825 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
33826 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
33827 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
33828 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
33829 to set log options.
33830 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
33831 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
33832 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
33833 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
33836 o Major bugfixes (security):
33837 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
33838 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
33839 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
33840 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
33842 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
33843 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
33844 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
33845 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
33846 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
33848 o Major bugfixes (other):
33849 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
33850 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
33851 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
33852 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
33854 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
33855 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
33856 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
33857 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
33858 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
33859 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
33863 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
33864 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
33865 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
33866 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
33867 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
33869 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
33870 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
33872 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
33873 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
33874 family lists conveniently.
33875 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
33876 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
33877 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
33879 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
33880 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
33882 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
33883 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
33884 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
33885 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
33886 if their identity keys are as expected.
33887 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
33888 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
33889 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
33891 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33892 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
33893 reported by Mike Perry.
33894 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
33895 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
33896 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
33897 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
33900 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
33901 o Security bugfixes:
33902 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
33903 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
33904 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
33905 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
33909 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
33910 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
33911 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
33914 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
33916 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
33917 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
33918 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
33921 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
33922 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
33923 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
33924 watching for STREAM events.
33925 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
33926 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
33927 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
33928 operations, for profiling.
33931 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
33932 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
33933 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
33934 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
33935 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
33936 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
33938 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
33942 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
33943 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
33944 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
33945 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
33946 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
33948 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
33949 correctly in the Windows installer.
33950 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
33951 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
33952 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
33953 MIPSpro C compiler.
33954 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
33955 when we're running as a client.
33958 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
33960 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
33961 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
33962 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
33963 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
33964 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
33965 its circuits on demand.
33966 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
33967 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
33968 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
33969 connections more stable on average.
33970 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
33971 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
33972 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
33974 o Security bugfixes:
33975 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
33976 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
33979 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
33981 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
33982 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
33983 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
33984 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
33985 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
33986 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
33987 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
33988 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
33991 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
33993 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
33994 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
33995 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
33996 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
33997 routers for even longer.
33998 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
33999 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
34000 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
34001 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
34002 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
34003 caching HTTP proxies.
34004 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
34007 o Minor features, controller:
34008 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
34009 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
34010 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
34011 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
34013 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
34014 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
34015 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
34016 working much like those for circuit events.
34017 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
34018 about the current status of a router.
34019 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
34020 a router's status has changed.
34021 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
34022 can tell which events and features are supported.
34023 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
34024 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
34026 o Security bugfixes:
34027 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
34028 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
34031 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
34032 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
34033 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
34034 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
34035 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
34036 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
34037 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
34038 long nicknames where appropriate.
34039 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
34040 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
34041 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
34042 chews through many circuits before giving up.
34043 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
34044 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
34045 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
34046 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
34047 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
34048 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
34050 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
34051 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
34052 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
34054 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
34055 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
34056 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
34057 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
34058 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
34059 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
34060 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
34061 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
34062 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
34063 (reported by fookoowa).
34064 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
34065 and reported by some Centos users.
34066 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
34067 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
34068 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
34069 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
34070 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
34071 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
34072 before we check for libevent.
34075 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
34077 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
34078 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
34079 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
34080 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
34081 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
34082 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
34083 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
34084 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
34085 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
34086 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
34087 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
34088 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
34089 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
34090 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
34091 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
34092 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
34093 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
34094 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
34095 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
34096 lets you turn it off.
34097 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
34098 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
34099 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
34100 us into the directory more quickly.
34102 o New/improved config options:
34103 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
34104 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
34105 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
34106 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
34107 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
34108 all the machines on the same subnet.
34109 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
34110 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
34111 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
34112 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
34113 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
34114 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
34115 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
34116 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
34117 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
34118 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
34120 o Minor features, controller:
34121 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
34122 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
34123 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
34124 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
34125 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
34126 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
34127 for more information.
34128 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
34129 best guess to the user.
34130 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
34131 descriptor has changed.
34132 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
34134 o Minor features, other:
34135 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
34136 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
34137 useful to the network.
34138 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
34139 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
34140 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
34141 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
34142 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
34143 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
34144 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
34145 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
34146 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
34147 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
34148 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
34149 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
34150 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
34151 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
34152 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
34154 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
34155 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
34156 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
34157 could return an unnamed server instead.
34158 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
34159 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
34160 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
34161 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
34162 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
34163 a more attractive target for compromise.)
34164 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
34165 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
34166 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
34168 o Major bugfixes, other:
34169 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
34170 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
34171 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
34172 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
34173 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
34174 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
34175 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
34176 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
34177 its circuits on demand.
34178 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
34179 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
34180 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
34181 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
34183 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
34184 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
34185 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
34186 we don't recognize.
34187 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
34189 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
34190 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
34191 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
34192 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
34193 "extendcircuit" request.
34194 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
34195 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
34196 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
34198 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
34199 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
34200 instead of "X resolved to X".
34201 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
34202 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
34203 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
34204 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
34205 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
34206 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
34207 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
34208 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
34209 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
34211 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
34212 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
34213 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
34214 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
34215 result more than once.
34216 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
34217 non-versioning dirservers.
34218 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
34219 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
34221 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
34222 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
34223 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
34224 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
34225 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
34226 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
34227 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
34228 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
34229 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
34231 o Packaging, features:
34232 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
34233 now universal binaries.
34234 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
34235 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
34236 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
34238 o Packaging, bugfixes:
34239 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
34240 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
34241 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
34242 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
34244 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
34245 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
34246 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
34249 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
34250 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
34251 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
34255 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
34257 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
34258 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
34259 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
34260 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
34261 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
34262 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
34263 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
34264 it can't resolve its hostname.
34267 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
34268 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
34269 "extendcircuit" request.
34270 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
34271 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
34272 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
34273 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
34275 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
34276 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
34277 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
34279 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
34280 methods: these are known to be buggy.
34281 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
34282 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
34283 we don't recognize.
34286 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
34288 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
34289 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
34290 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
34291 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
34292 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
34293 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
34294 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
34295 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
34296 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
34297 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
34298 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
34299 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
34300 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
34301 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
34302 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
34303 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
34304 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
34305 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
34306 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
34307 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
34308 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
34309 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
34310 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
34311 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
34314 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
34315 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
34316 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
34317 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
34318 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
34319 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
34320 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
34321 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
34322 recommendation system saner.)
34323 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
34325 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
34326 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
34327 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
34328 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
34329 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
34330 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
34331 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
34332 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
34333 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
34334 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
34335 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
34336 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
34337 your ORPort is set.
34338 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
34339 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
34340 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
34341 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
34342 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
34343 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
34344 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
34345 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
34346 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
34347 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
34348 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
34349 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
34351 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
34352 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
34353 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
34354 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
34355 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
34356 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
34359 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
34360 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
34361 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
34362 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
34363 our DirPort now, etc.
34364 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
34365 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
34366 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
34367 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
34368 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
34369 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
34370 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
34372 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
34373 whether the config options are bad or good.
34374 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
34375 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
34376 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
34377 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
34378 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
34379 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
34380 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
34381 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
34384 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
34385 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
34386 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
34387 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
34388 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
34389 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
34390 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
34391 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
34392 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
34393 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
34394 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
34395 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
34396 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
34397 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
34398 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
34399 of it), is not therefore "up".
34400 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
34401 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
34402 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
34403 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
34404 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
34405 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
34408 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
34410 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
34411 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
34412 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
34413 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
34414 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
34415 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
34416 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
34417 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
34418 test reachability, so you won't publish.
34421 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
34422 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
34423 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
34424 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
34425 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
34427 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
34428 own server descriptor yet.
34431 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
34433 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
34434 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
34435 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
34436 make sure to test via one of these.
34437 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
34438 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
34439 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
34440 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
34441 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
34443 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
34444 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
34445 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
34448 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
34449 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
34450 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
34451 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
34452 directory authority.
34453 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
34454 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
34455 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
34456 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
34459 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
34460 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
34461 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
34463 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
34464 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
34465 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
34466 current guards when picking a new guard.
34467 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
34468 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
34469 when we had more than one pending.
34470 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
34471 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
34472 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
34473 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
34474 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
34475 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
34476 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
34477 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
34478 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
34479 debug the reachability problems better.
34481 o Log / documentation fixes:
34482 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
34483 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
34484 about protocol violations by others.
34485 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
34486 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
34487 about what happened to our old torrc.
34490 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
34492 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
34494 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
34495 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
34496 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
34497 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
34500 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
34502 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
34503 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
34504 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
34505 old ORPort and receive connections.
34506 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
34508 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
34509 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
34510 and network-statuses.
34511 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
34512 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
34513 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
34514 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
34516 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
34519 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
34520 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
34521 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
34524 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
34526 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
34527 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
34528 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
34529 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
34530 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
34533 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
34534 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
34536 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
34537 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
34538 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
34539 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
34540 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
34541 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
34542 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
34543 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
34544 rather than not sending anything back at all.
34545 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
34546 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
34547 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
34548 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
34549 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
34550 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
34551 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
34552 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
34553 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
34554 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
34555 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
34556 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
34557 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
34558 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
34559 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
34560 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
34561 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
34562 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
34563 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
34564 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
34565 default ulimit -n is 1024.
34568 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
34569 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
34570 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
34571 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
34574 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
34576 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
34577 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
34578 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
34579 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
34580 entry guards running these flawed versions.
34581 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
34582 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
34583 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
34584 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
34585 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
34588 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
34589 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
34591 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
34592 and it is confusing some users.
34593 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
34594 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
34595 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
34596 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
34597 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
34600 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
34602 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
34603 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
34604 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
34605 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
34606 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
34607 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
34608 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
34609 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
34610 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
34611 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
34612 dirport is set for now.
34614 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
34615 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
34616 unattached before we fail it?
34617 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
34618 at least this many seconds ago.
34619 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
34620 at least this many seconds ago.
34623 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
34624 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
34625 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
34626 or resolve-wait stream.
34627 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
34628 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
34629 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
34630 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
34631 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
34632 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
34633 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
34634 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
34636 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
34637 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
34638 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
34639 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
34640 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
34641 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
34642 given as hex digests.
34643 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
34644 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
34645 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
34646 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
34647 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
34648 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
34649 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
34650 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
34653 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34654 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
34655 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
34656 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
34657 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
34658 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
34659 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
34660 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
34661 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
34662 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
34663 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
34666 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
34667 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
34668 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
34669 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
34670 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
34671 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
34672 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
34675 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
34676 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
34677 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
34678 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
34679 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
34680 misreading their logs.
34681 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
34682 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
34683 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
34684 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
34685 valid router descriptors.
34686 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
34687 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
34688 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
34689 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
34690 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
34691 silently resetting it to its default.
34692 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
34694 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
34697 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
34698 use clean circuits.
34699 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
34700 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
34701 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
34702 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
34703 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
34705 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
34706 because older Tors do not understand it.
34707 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
34711 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
34712 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
34713 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
34714 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
34715 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
34716 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
34717 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
34718 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
34719 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
34720 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
34721 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
34723 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
34724 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
34725 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
34726 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
34728 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
34729 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
34732 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
34733 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
34734 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
34735 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
34736 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
34737 without getting overloaded.
34738 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
34740 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
34741 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
34742 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
34743 be forward-compatible.
34744 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
34745 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
34746 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
34747 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
34749 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
34750 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
34751 and OR conns to port 443.
34752 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
34753 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
34755 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
34756 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
34757 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
34758 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
34759 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
34760 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
34761 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
34764 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
34765 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34766 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
34767 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
34769 o Other important bugfixes:
34770 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
34771 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
34772 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
34773 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
34775 o Backported features:
34776 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
34777 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
34778 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
34779 without getting overloaded.
34780 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
34781 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
34782 503's whenever they feel busy.
34783 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
34784 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
34785 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
34786 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
34787 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
34790 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
34791 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
34792 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
34793 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
34794 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
34795 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
34796 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
34797 know if the crashes continue.
34798 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
34799 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
34800 seg faults in at least some cases.)
34801 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
34802 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
34803 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
34806 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
34807 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
34808 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
34809 try to be a bit more fair.
34810 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
34811 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
34812 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
34813 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
34814 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
34815 bug that let it go negative.
34816 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
34817 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
34818 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
34819 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
34820 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
34821 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
34822 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
34823 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
34824 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
34825 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
34826 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
34829 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
34831 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
34832 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
34833 service descriptors.
34836 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
34837 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
34838 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
34839 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
34841 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
34842 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
34843 versions *are* still recommended.
34844 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
34845 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
34846 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
34847 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
34848 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
34849 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
34850 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
34851 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
34853 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
34854 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
34855 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
34856 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
34857 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
34858 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
34859 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
34860 on it. Not used by clients yet.
34861 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
34862 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
34863 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
34864 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
34865 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
34866 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
34867 established a circuit.
34868 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
34869 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
34870 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
34871 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
34874 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
34875 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
34876 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
34877 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
34878 quickly enough. Oops.
34879 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
34881 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34882 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
34885 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
34886 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
34887 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
34888 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
34889 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
34890 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
34891 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
34892 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
34893 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
34894 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
34895 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
34896 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
34897 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
34898 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
34899 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
34900 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
34901 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
34904 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
34905 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
34906 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
34907 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
34908 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
34909 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
34910 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
34911 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
34912 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
34913 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
34914 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
34915 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
34916 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
34917 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
34918 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
34919 connections more reliable.
34922 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
34923 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
34924 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
34925 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
34926 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
34927 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
34928 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
34929 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
34930 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
34931 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
34932 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
34933 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
34934 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
34935 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
34939 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
34940 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
34941 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
34942 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
34943 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
34944 need to be uint64_t's.
34945 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
34946 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
34947 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
34949 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
34951 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
34952 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
34953 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
34954 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
34955 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
34956 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
34957 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
34959 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
34960 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
34961 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
34962 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
34963 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
34964 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
34965 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
34966 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
34967 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
34968 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
34969 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
34970 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
34971 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
34974 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
34975 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
34976 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
34977 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
34978 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
34979 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
34980 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
34982 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
34983 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
34984 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
34985 can answer v2 directory requests too.
34986 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
34987 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
34988 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
34989 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
34991 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
34992 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
34993 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
34994 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
34995 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
34996 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
34997 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
34998 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
34999 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
35000 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
35001 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
35002 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
35003 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
35004 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
35005 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
35007 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
35008 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
35011 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
35012 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35013 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
35014 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
35015 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
35016 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
35017 too -- so detect and avoid this.
35018 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
35020 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
35021 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
35022 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
35023 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
35024 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
35025 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
35026 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
35027 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
35028 rendezvous circuits.
35029 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
35031 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35032 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
35033 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
35034 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
35035 advertising it because of hibernation.
35036 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
35037 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
35038 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
35039 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
35040 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
35041 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
35042 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
35043 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
35044 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
35045 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
35046 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
35047 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
35048 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
35049 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
35052 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
35053 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35054 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
35055 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
35056 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
35057 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
35058 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
35059 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
35060 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
35061 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
35062 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
35063 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
35064 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
35065 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
35066 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
35067 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
35068 connections once a week.
35069 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
35070 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
35071 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
35072 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
35073 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
35074 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
35076 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
35077 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
35078 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
35080 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35081 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
35082 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
35083 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
35084 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
35085 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
35086 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
35087 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
35088 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
35089 firewall options forbid.
35090 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
35091 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
35092 can only proxy to certain destinations.
35093 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
35094 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
35095 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
35096 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
35097 aids some statistical attacks.
35098 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
35099 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
35100 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
35101 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
35103 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
35104 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
35105 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
35106 server descriptor sometimes.
35107 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
35108 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
35109 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
35110 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
35111 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
35112 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
35113 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
35114 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
35116 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
35117 case the controller wants to change that too.
35118 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
35119 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
35120 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
35121 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
35123 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
35124 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
35125 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
35127 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
35128 descriptors that they know they will reject.
35130 o Features and updates:
35131 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
35132 significantly faster.
35133 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
35134 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
35135 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
35136 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
35137 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
35138 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
35139 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
35140 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
35141 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
35142 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
35143 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
35144 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
35145 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
35146 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
35147 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
35148 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
35149 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
35150 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
35151 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
35152 as authoritative dirserver.
35153 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
35154 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
35155 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
35158 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
35159 o Usability improvements:
35160 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
35161 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
35163 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
35164 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
35165 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
35167 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
35168 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
35169 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
35170 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
35171 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
35172 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
35173 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
35174 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
35175 memory leaks better.
35176 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
35177 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
35178 their operators to pay close attention.
35179 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
35180 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
35182 o Performance improvements:
35183 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
35184 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
35185 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
35186 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
35187 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
35188 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
35189 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
35190 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
35191 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
35192 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
35193 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
35194 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
35195 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
35196 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
35197 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
35198 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
35199 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
35201 o Security improvements:
35202 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
35203 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
35204 fingerprint of server.
35205 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
35206 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
35207 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
35209 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35210 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
35211 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
35212 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
35213 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
35214 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
35215 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
35216 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
35217 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
35218 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
35219 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
35220 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
35221 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
35222 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
35223 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
35224 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
35225 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
35226 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
35227 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
35228 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
35229 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
35231 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
35232 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
35233 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
35235 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
35236 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
35238 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
35239 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
35240 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
35241 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
35242 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
35243 of the controller protocol.
35244 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
35245 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
35246 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
35249 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
35250 o New features (major):
35251 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
35252 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
35253 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
35254 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
35255 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
35256 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
35257 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
35258 we're using a default DirPort.
35259 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
35261 o New features (minor):
35262 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
35263 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
35264 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
35265 mirrors still cache and serve it).
35266 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
35267 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
35268 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
35269 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
35270 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
35271 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
35272 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
35273 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
35274 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
35275 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
35276 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
35277 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
35278 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
35279 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
35280 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
35282 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
35283 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
35284 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
35285 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
35286 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
35287 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
35288 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
35289 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
35291 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
35292 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
35293 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
35294 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
35295 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
35296 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
35297 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
35298 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
35299 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
35300 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
35302 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
35303 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
35304 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
35305 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
35306 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
35308 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
35309 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
35310 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
35312 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
35313 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
35315 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
35316 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
35317 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
35318 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
35319 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
35320 don't warn twice about the same name.
35321 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
35322 if we've not heard of the server.
35323 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
35324 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
35327 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
35328 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35329 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
35330 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
35331 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
35332 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
35333 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
35334 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
35335 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
35336 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
35337 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
35338 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
35339 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
35340 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
35341 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
35344 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
35345 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
35346 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
35347 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
35348 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
35350 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
35351 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
35352 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
35353 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
35354 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
35355 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
35359 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
35360 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
35361 nickname) is reachable by you.
35362 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
35365 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
35366 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
35367 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
35368 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
35369 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
35370 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
35371 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
35372 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
35373 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
35374 we fail to connect).
35375 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
35376 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
35377 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
35378 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
35380 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
35381 it was self-testing that told us so.
35384 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
35385 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
35386 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
35387 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
35388 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
35389 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
35390 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
35391 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
35392 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
35393 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
35394 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
35395 exit policy using him for any exits.
35396 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
35399 o New controller features/fixes:
35400 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
35401 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
35402 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
35403 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
35404 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
35405 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
35406 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
35407 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
35408 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
35410 o Start on the new directory design:
35411 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
35412 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
35414 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
35415 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
35416 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
35417 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
35419 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
35420 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
35421 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
35422 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
35423 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
35424 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
35425 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
35426 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
35429 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
35430 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
35431 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
35432 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
35433 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
35434 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
35435 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
35436 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
35437 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
35438 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
35440 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
35441 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
35442 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
35443 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
35444 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
35445 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
35446 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
35447 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
35448 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
35450 o Config option changes:
35451 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
35452 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
35453 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
35454 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
35455 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
35456 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
35458 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
35459 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
35460 people have started using them for spam too.
35461 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
35462 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
35463 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
35464 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
35465 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
35466 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
35467 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
35468 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
35469 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
35470 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
35471 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
35472 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
35473 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
35474 services faster on the service end.
35475 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
35476 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
35477 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
35478 it a fair shake next time we try.
35479 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
35480 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
35481 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
35482 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
35483 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
35484 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
35485 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
35486 able to discover them.
35487 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
35488 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
35489 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
35490 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
35491 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
35492 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
35493 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
35494 testing for reachability.
35495 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
35496 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
35498 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
35500 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
35501 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
35504 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
35505 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
35507 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35508 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
35509 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
35510 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
35513 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
35514 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35515 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
35517 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
35518 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
35521 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
35522 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
35525 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
35526 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
35527 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
35528 options, getinfo keys.
35531 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
35532 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35533 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
35534 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
35535 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
35536 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
35537 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
35539 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
35540 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
35544 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
35545 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
35546 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
35548 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
35550 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
35551 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
35552 circuit events and we go offline.
35553 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
35554 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
35555 you don't have enough intro points already.
35557 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
35558 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
35559 many bytes we've used in this time period.
35560 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
35561 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
35562 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
35563 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
35564 enabled by default yet.
35566 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
35567 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
35568 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
35569 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
35570 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
35573 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
35574 o New directory servers:
35575 - tor26 has changed IP address.
35577 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35578 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
35579 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
35580 pthreads libraries.
35581 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
35582 claims its dirport is 0.
35583 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
35584 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
35588 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
35589 o New directory servers:
35590 - tor26 has changed IP address.
35592 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
35593 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
35595 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
35596 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
35597 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
35598 ports that have changed.
35599 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
35601 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
35602 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
35603 Windows-style errno back.
35604 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
35606 want to make it an NT service.
35607 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
35608 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
35609 name, give the full name in our response.
35610 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
35611 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
35612 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
35613 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
35614 pthreads libraries.
35616 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
35617 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
35621 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
35622 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
35623 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
35624 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
35625 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
35628 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
35629 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35630 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
35631 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
35632 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
35633 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
35634 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
35635 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
35638 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
35640 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
35641 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
35642 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
35643 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
35644 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
35645 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
35647 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
35648 temporarily unreachable.
35649 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
35653 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
35654 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
35655 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
35656 our protocol works.
35657 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
35661 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
35662 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
35663 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
35664 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
35665 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
35669 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
35670 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
35671 libevent before 1.1a.
35674 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
35676 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
35677 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
35678 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
35679 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
35680 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
35682 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
35683 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
35684 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
35685 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
35686 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
35687 of CPU time plus memory.
35688 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
35689 normal web requests.
35690 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
35691 tor_lookup_hostname().
35692 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
35693 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
35694 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
35695 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
35696 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
35697 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
35699 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
35700 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
35701 HttpProxyAuthenticator
35702 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
35703 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
35704 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
35706 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
35707 the user asks you to.
35708 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
35709 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
35710 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
35711 their descriptors are being rejected.
35712 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
35716 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
35718 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
35719 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
35720 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
35722 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
35724 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
35726 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
35727 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
35728 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
35729 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
35730 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
35731 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
35732 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
35733 keys) from the exit server's process.
35734 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
35735 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
35736 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
35737 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
35738 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
35739 point at your Tor server.
35740 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
35741 you're not sending a socks reply back.
35744 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
35745 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
35746 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
35747 to make it easier to write controllers.
35750 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
35752 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
35753 installing on Tiger.
35754 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
35755 complain during installation.
35756 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
35757 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
35758 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
35759 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
35760 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
35761 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
35763 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
35764 something more reasonable when first installing.
35765 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
35768 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
35770 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
35771 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
35773 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
35774 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
35775 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
35776 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
35777 when using the default exit policy.
35778 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
35779 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
35780 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
35781 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
35782 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
35783 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
35784 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
35785 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
35786 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
35787 we fetched a new directory.
35788 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
35789 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
35792 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
35793 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
35794 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
35795 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
35796 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
35797 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
35798 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
35799 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
35801 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
35802 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
35803 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
35804 save memory on systems that need to fork.
35805 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
35806 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
35807 is valid without actually launching Tor.
35808 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
35809 rather than just rejecting it.
35812 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
35814 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
35815 we didn't like its cert.
35817 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
35818 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
35819 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
35820 on patch from Adam Langley.
35821 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
35822 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
35823 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
35824 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
35826 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
35827 directory every time you regenerate it.
35828 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
35829 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
35832 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
35833 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
35834 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
35835 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
35836 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
35839 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
35841 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
35842 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
35843 TLS errors better in other situations too.
35844 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
35845 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
35846 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
35847 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
35848 and don't log when you are.
35849 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
35850 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
35852 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
35853 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
35854 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
35855 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
35856 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
35859 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
35860 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
35861 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
35862 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
35863 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
35864 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
35865 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
35866 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
35867 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
35868 nickname+key are allowed.
35869 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
35870 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
35871 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
35872 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
35873 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
35874 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
35875 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
35876 have quite wrong clocks).
35877 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
35878 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
35879 - Efficiency improvements:
35880 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
35881 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
35882 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
35883 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
35884 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
35885 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
35886 lowercase and be done with it.
35887 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
35888 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
35889 to abandon partially built circuits.
35890 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
35891 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
35893 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
35895 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
35896 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
35897 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
35898 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
35900 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
35901 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
35903 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
35904 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
35905 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
35906 obeying the exit policy internally.
35907 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
35908 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
35910 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
35911 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
35912 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
35913 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
35915 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
35916 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
35917 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
35918 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
35919 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
35921 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
35922 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
35923 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
35924 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
35925 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
35926 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
35927 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
35928 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
35929 descriptors we just dropped.
35930 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
35931 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
35932 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
35933 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
35934 artificially capped at 500kB.
35937 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
35938 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
35939 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
35940 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
35941 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
35942 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
35943 busy for more than 100 seconds.
35946 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
35947 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
35948 - Fixes on reachability detection:
35949 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
35950 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
35951 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
35952 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
35953 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
35954 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
35955 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
35956 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
35957 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
35958 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
35959 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
35960 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
35961 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
35962 server not already connected to them.
35963 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
35964 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
35965 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
35967 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
35969 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
35970 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
35971 are in a different state than they actually are.
35972 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
35973 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
35974 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
35976 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
35977 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
35978 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
35980 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
35981 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
35982 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
35983 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
35984 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
35985 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
35986 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
35988 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
35989 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
35990 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
35991 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
35994 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
35995 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
35996 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
35997 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
35998 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
35999 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
36000 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
36001 creating actual system users.
36002 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
36003 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
36007 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
36009 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
36010 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
36011 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
36012 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
36013 hidden services better.
36014 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
36016 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
36017 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
36018 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
36019 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
36020 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
36021 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
36022 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
36023 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
36024 patch by Matt Edman).
36025 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
36026 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
36027 required exit node for certain sites.
36028 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
36029 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
36030 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
36031 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
36032 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
36033 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
36034 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
36035 rather than just "success" or "failure".
36036 - A more sane version numbering system. See
36037 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
36038 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
36039 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
36041 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
36042 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
36043 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
36044 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
36045 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
36046 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
36047 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
36049 o Robustness/stability fixes:
36050 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
36051 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
36052 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
36054 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
36055 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
36056 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
36058 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
36059 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
36060 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
36062 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
36063 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
36064 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
36065 that will want high uptime circuits.
36066 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
36067 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
36068 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
36069 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
36070 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
36071 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
36072 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
36073 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
36074 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
36075 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
36076 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
36077 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
36078 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
36079 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
36080 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
36081 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
36082 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
36083 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
36084 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
36085 when we try to launch one.
36086 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
36087 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
36088 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
36089 "ShutdownWaitLength".
36090 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
36091 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
36092 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
36093 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
36094 and to take errno into account where possible.
36097 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
36098 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
36099 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
36100 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
36101 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
36102 file more reasonable.
36103 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
36104 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
36105 addresses -- it won't.
36106 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
36107 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
36108 for google.com" problem.
36109 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
36110 so it's not just "unknown platform".
36111 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
36112 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
36113 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
36114 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
36116 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
36117 they could use instead.
36118 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
36119 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
36120 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
36121 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
36122 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
36123 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
36124 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
36125 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
36126 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
36128 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
36132 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
36133 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
36135 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
36136 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
36137 private-IP addresses.
36138 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
36139 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
36141 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
36142 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
36143 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
36144 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
36145 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
36146 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
36147 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
36149 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
36150 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
36151 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
36152 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
36153 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
36154 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
36155 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
36156 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
36158 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
36160 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
36161 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
36162 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
36163 whether the server is hibernating.
36166 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
36167 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
36168 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
36169 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
36170 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
36171 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
36172 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
36173 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
36174 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
36175 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
36176 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
36177 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
36178 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
36179 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
36180 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
36182 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
36183 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
36184 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
36185 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
36186 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
36187 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
36188 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
36189 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
36190 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
36191 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
36192 existing torrc files.
36193 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
36196 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
36197 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
36198 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
36199 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
36200 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
36201 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
36202 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
36203 the win32 SYSTEM account.
36204 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
36205 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
36206 file descriptors available.
36207 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
36208 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
36209 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
36212 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
36213 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
36214 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
36215 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
36217 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
36218 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
36219 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
36220 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
36221 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
36223 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
36224 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
36225 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
36226 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
36227 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
36228 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
36229 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
36230 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
36231 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
36232 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
36233 800kB/s of capacity.
36234 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
36237 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
36238 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
36239 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
36240 need as much processor time.
36241 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
36242 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
36243 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
36244 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
36245 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
36246 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
36247 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
36248 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
36249 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
36250 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
36251 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
36252 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
36254 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
36255 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
36256 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
36257 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
36258 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
36259 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
36260 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
36263 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
36264 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
36265 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
36267 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
36268 style address, then we'd crash.
36269 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
36270 a dirserver is broken.
36271 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
36273 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
36274 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
36275 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
36277 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
36278 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
36279 name out of the warning/assert messages.
36280 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
36281 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
36282 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
36284 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
36285 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
36286 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
36288 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
36290 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
36291 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
36292 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
36293 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
36294 values at once couldn't work.
36295 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
36296 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
36297 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
36298 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
36299 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
36300 they can handle any number of routers.
36301 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
36302 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
36303 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
36304 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
36305 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
36306 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
36307 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
36308 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
36309 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
36312 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
36313 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
36314 - Make hibernation actually work.
36315 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
36316 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
36317 don't use the stream status code.
36320 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
36322 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
36323 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
36325 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
36328 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
36329 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
36330 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
36331 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
36332 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
36333 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
36334 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
36335 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
36336 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
36337 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
36339 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36340 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
36341 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
36342 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
36343 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
36344 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
36345 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
36346 - Make unit tests work on win32.
36349 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
36350 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
36351 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
36353 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
36354 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
36355 than just chopping them off.
36356 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
36358 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36359 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
36360 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
36361 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
36362 right after sending the begin cell.
36363 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
36364 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
36365 exit nodes too. Oops.
36368 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
36369 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
36370 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
36371 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
36372 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
36373 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
36374 the user knows which one it's talking about.
36375 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
36376 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
36377 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
36380 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
36381 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36382 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
36383 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
36385 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
36387 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
36388 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
36389 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
36391 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
36392 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
36393 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
36394 Clip rather than rejecting.
36395 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
36396 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
36399 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
36400 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
36401 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
36402 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
36404 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
36407 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
36408 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36409 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
36410 win32 socket errors better.
36412 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
36413 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
36416 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
36417 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36418 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
36419 so we don't see those messages days later.
36421 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
36422 - Make tor-resolve work again.
36423 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
36424 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
36427 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
36428 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
36429 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
36430 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
36432 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
36433 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
36434 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
36437 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
36438 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36439 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
36440 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
36441 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
36442 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
36443 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
36444 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
36445 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
36447 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
36448 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
36449 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
36450 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
36452 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
36453 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
36456 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
36457 hibernation properties by
36458 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
36459 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
36460 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
36461 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
36462 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
36463 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
36464 get back to normal.)
36465 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
36467 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
36468 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
36469 to fill the last cell completely.
36470 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
36473 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
36474 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36475 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
36476 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
36477 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
36478 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
36479 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
36480 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
36481 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
36482 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
36483 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
36485 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
36486 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
36487 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
36488 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
36489 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
36490 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
36491 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
36492 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
36494 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
36495 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
36496 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
36497 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
36498 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
36499 have it on start-up.
36502 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
36503 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
36504 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
36505 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
36506 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
36507 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
36508 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
36509 configuration to torrc.
36510 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
36511 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
36512 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
36513 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
36514 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
36516 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
36517 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
36518 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
36519 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
36520 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
36521 log more informatively.
36522 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
36523 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
36524 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
36525 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
36526 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
36527 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
36528 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
36529 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
36530 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
36531 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
36532 from each other, to hinder linkability.
36535 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
36536 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
36537 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
36538 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
36539 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
36540 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
36541 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
36543 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
36544 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
36545 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
36546 they ran out of file descriptors.
36547 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
36548 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
36549 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
36550 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
36551 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
36552 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
36553 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
36555 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
36558 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
36559 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
36560 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
36561 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
36562 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
36563 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
36564 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
36565 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
36566 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
36567 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
36568 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
36569 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
36570 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
36571 with the control port.
36572 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
36573 use in authenticating to the control interface.
36574 - New log format in config:
36575 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
36576 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
36579 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
36580 from their dirserver.
36581 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
36583 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
36584 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
36585 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
36586 them act more like real nodes.
36587 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
36588 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
36590 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
36591 nickname to its identity key.
36592 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
36593 not on the command line.
36594 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
36595 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
36596 1024) file descriptors.
36598 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
36599 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
36601 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
36602 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
36603 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
36606 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
36607 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
36608 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
36609 exit policy, not reject *:*.
36610 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
36611 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
36612 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
36613 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
36614 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
36615 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
36616 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
36619 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
36620 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
36621 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
36622 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
36623 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
36624 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
36625 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
36628 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
36629 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36630 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
36631 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
36632 the ones we find in directories.)
36633 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
36635 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
36636 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
36638 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
36639 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
36640 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
36642 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
36643 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
36644 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
36645 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
36647 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
36648 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
36649 any more exit policy lines.
36652 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
36653 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
36654 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
36655 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
36656 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
36657 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
36658 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
36659 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
36660 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
36661 will be able to get a directory.
36662 - Http proxy support
36663 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
36664 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
36665 be routed through this host.
36666 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
36667 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
36668 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
36669 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
36672 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
36674 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
36675 clients/servers with an open dirport.
36676 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
36677 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
36678 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
36679 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
36680 intermittent connections.
36681 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
36682 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
36684 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
36685 in reporting stats locally.
36686 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
36687 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
36688 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
36691 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
36693 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
36694 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
36697 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
36699 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
36700 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
36701 if you don't want it open.
36702 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
36703 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
36704 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
36705 intermittent connections.
36706 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
36708 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
36709 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
36710 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
36711 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
36712 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
36713 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
36714 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
36715 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
36716 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
36717 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
36718 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
36719 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
36720 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
36721 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
36722 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
36723 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
36726 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
36727 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
36728 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
36729 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
36730 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
36732 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
36734 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
36735 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
36736 specified in HTTP 1.0.
36737 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
36738 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
36739 than once per minute.
36740 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
36741 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
36744 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
36745 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
36748 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
36749 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
36750 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
36751 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
36754 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
36755 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
36757 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
36758 don't put it into the client dns cache.
36759 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
36760 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
36761 until we get our next directory.
36763 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
36764 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
36765 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
36766 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
36767 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
36768 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
36769 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
36770 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
36771 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
36772 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
36773 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
36775 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
36777 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
36778 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
36780 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
36781 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
36782 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
36784 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
36786 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
36787 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
36788 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
36789 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
36790 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
36791 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
36792 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
36793 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
36796 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
36797 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
36798 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
36799 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
36802 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
36803 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
36804 ask them to resolve the host "".
36807 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
36808 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
36809 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
36810 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
36811 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
36812 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
36813 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
36814 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
36815 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
36816 clients don't use this yet.)
36817 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
36818 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
36819 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
36820 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
36821 for pointing out this bug.)
36822 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
36823 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
36824 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
36825 kazaa, gnutella ports.
36826 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
36828 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
36829 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
36830 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
36831 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
36832 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
36833 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
36834 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
36835 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
36836 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
36837 wolf unpredictably.
36838 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
36839 that's still handshaking.
36840 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
36841 you'll choose it for your path.
36842 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
36843 end relay cell, etc.
36844 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
36845 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
36846 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
36849 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
36850 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
36852 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
36853 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
36854 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
36855 list to decide who's running or verified.
36856 - Bugfixes and features:
36857 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
36858 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
36859 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
36860 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
36861 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
36862 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
36864 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
36865 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
36866 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
36867 know you might want to get it verified.
36868 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
36871 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
36873 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
36874 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
36875 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
36876 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
36878 o Protocol changes:
36879 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
36880 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
36881 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
36882 hadn't heard of before.
36885 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
36886 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
36887 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
36888 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
36889 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
36890 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
36891 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
36892 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
36893 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
36894 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
36895 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
36896 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
36897 - Directory caching.
36898 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
36899 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
36900 directory they've pulled down.
36901 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
36902 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
36903 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
36904 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
36905 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
36906 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
36907 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
36909 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
36910 This isn't used yet.
36911 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
36912 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
36913 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
36914 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
36915 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
36916 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
36917 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
36918 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
36919 - File and name management:
36920 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
36921 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
36923 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
36924 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
36925 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
36926 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
36927 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
36928 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
36929 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
36931 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
36932 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
36933 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
36934 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
36935 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
36937 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
36938 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
36939 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
36940 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
36941 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
36942 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
36943 - New docs in the tarball:
36945 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
36948 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
36949 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
36950 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
36953 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
36954 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
36955 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
36958 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
36959 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
36962 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
36963 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
36964 - Make it build on Win32 again.
36965 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
36966 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
36970 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
36972 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
36973 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
36974 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
36975 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
36976 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
36977 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
36978 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
36979 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
36980 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
36981 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
36984 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
36987 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
36988 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
36989 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
36990 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
36992 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
36993 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
36994 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
36996 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
36997 hidden service per 15-minute period.
36998 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
36999 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
37000 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
37001 o Fixes for security bugs:
37002 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
37003 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
37004 a trusted dirserver.
37006 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
37007 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
37008 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
37009 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
37010 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
37011 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
37012 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
37013 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
37014 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
37015 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
37017 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
37018 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
37019 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
37020 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
37022 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
37023 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
37024 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
37025 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
37026 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
37027 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
37028 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
37029 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
37030 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
37031 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
37032 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
37033 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
37034 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
37037 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
37038 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
37039 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
37040 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
37043 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
37044 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
37045 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
37046 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
37047 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
37048 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
37049 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
37053 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
37054 [version bump only]
37057 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
37058 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
37059 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
37060 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
37061 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
37063 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
37066 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
37067 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
37068 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
37069 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
37070 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
37071 o Better debugging for tls errors
37072 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
37073 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
37074 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
37075 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
37076 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
37077 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
37078 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
37079 o win32's close can't close a socket.
37082 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
37083 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
37084 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
37085 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
37086 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
37087 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
37088 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
37089 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
37090 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
37091 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
37092 just close the circ.
37093 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
37094 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
37095 (this was quite rare).
37098 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
37099 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
37100 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
37101 if you decrypted them correctly.
37102 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
37103 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
37104 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
37107 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
37108 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
37109 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
37110 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
37111 a second one and it works.
37112 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
37113 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
37114 alice would just have to wait to time out.
37115 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
37116 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
37117 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
37118 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
37119 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
37120 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
37121 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
37122 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
37123 i'd still like to find the bug though.
37124 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
37126 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
37130 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
37131 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
37132 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
37133 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
37134 he retries a couple of times
37135 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
37136 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
37137 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
37138 too long (they were sticking around forever).
37139 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
37143 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
37144 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
37145 - make hup work again
37146 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
37147 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
37148 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
37149 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
37150 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
37151 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
37153 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
37154 o changes from 0.0.5:
37155 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
37156 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
37157 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
37158 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
37159 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
37161 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
37162 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
37163 in-memory directories too
37166 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
37167 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
37170 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
37172 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
37173 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
37174 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
37175 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
37178 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
37179 [version bump only]
37182 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
37183 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
37185 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
37186 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
37187 but that aren't warnings
37190 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
37191 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
37192 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
37193 the dns farm to do it.
37194 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
37195 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
37197 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
37198 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
37199 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
37202 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
37203 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
37204 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
37205 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
37206 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
37207 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
37208 expect it to have a nickname.
37209 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
37210 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
37213 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
37214 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
37218 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
37219 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
37220 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
37221 - include missing header fcntl.h
37222 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
37223 - deal with hardware word alignment
37224 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
37225 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
37226 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
37227 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
37228 by kill -USR1 currently.
37229 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
37230 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
37231 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
37234 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
37235 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
37236 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
37239 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
37241 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
37242 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
37243 - And fix a few endian issues.
37246 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
37248 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
37249 try that circuit again: try a new one.
37250 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
37251 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
37252 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
37253 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
37254 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
37255 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
37257 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
37258 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
37259 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
37261 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
37263 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
37264 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
37265 side isn't reading right then.
37266 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
37267 RecommendedVersions
37268 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
37269 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
37270 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
37273 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
37275 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
37276 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
37279 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
37283 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
37285 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
37286 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
37287 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
37288 connection is finished.
37289 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
37290 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
37291 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
37292 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
37293 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
37294 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
37295 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
37296 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
37297 rather than warn and continue.
37298 - Make --version work
37299 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
37302 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
37304 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
37305 knows it's working.
37306 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
37307 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
37309 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
37310 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
37311 so you can collect coredumps there.
37313 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
37314 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
37315 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
37316 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
37317 dns cache actually gets populated.
37318 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
37319 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
37320 end cell down it first.
37321 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
37322 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
37325 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
37327 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
37328 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
37330 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
37331 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
37332 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
37333 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
37334 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
37335 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
37337 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
37339 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
37340 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
37341 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
37342 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
37343 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
37344 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
37346 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
37347 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
37350 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
37352 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
37353 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
37354 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
37355 tor. It even has a man page.
37356 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
37357 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
37358 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
37359 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
37361 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
37363 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
37366 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
37368 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
37369 it, apt-getters. :)
37370 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
37371 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
37372 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
37373 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
37374 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
37375 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
37376 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
37377 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
37378 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
37379 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
37380 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
37382 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
37383 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
37386 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
37388 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
37389 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
37392 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
37394 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
37395 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
37396 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
37397 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
37398 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
37399 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
37400 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
37401 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
37402 logfile so you know it's working.
37403 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
37404 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
37407 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
37409 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
37410 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
37411 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
37414 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
37416 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
37417 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
37418 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
37421 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
37422 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
37423 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
37425 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
37426 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
37428 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
37429 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
37430 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
37432 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
37433 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
37437 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
37439 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
37440 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
37441 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
37444 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
37445 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
37446 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
37447 - Add port ranges to exit policies
37448 - Add a conservative default exit policy
37449 - Warn if you're running tor as root
37450 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
37451 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
37452 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
37453 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
37455 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
37458 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
37459 o Robustness and bugfixes:
37460 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
37461 really screw things up.
37462 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
37464 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
37465 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
37467 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
37468 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
37469 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
37470 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
37471 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
37472 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
37475 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
37478 - Change default loglevel to warn.
37479 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
37480 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
37482 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
37485 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
37486 o Robustness and bugfixes:
37487 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
37488 - to get ownership/permissions right
37489 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
37490 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
37491 pull down a directory again
37492 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
37493 causing server crashes
37494 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
37495 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
37496 - exit if bind() fails
37497 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
37498 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
37499 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
37500 - fix minor bias in PRNG
37501 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
37504 - Wrote the design document (woo)
37506 o Circuit building and exit policies:
37507 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
37509 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
37510 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
37511 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
37512 exists, rather than failing
37513 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
37514 which AP connections are standing by
37515 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
37516 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
37517 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
37519 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
37520 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
37523 - APPort is now called SocksPort
37524 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
37526 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
37527 hardcoded (for dirservers)
37528 - Reloads config on HUP
37529 - Usage info on -h or --help
37530 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
37533 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
37534 o General stability:
37535 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
37536 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
37537 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
37538 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
37539 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
37540 to take down the network when I approve a new router
37541 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
37544 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
37545 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
37547 o Autoconf improvements:
37548 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
37549 - Make install now works
37550 - create var/lib/tor on make install
37551 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
37552 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
37554 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
37555 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
37556 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
37557 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup